The English civil wars in the literary imagination
By: edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth.
Contributors: Summers, Claude J.; Pebworth, Ted-Larry.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Literature and the war.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Description: "The English civil wars loom large in seventeenth-century history and literature. This period, which culminated in the execution of a king, the dismantling of the Established Church, the inauguration of a commonwealth, and the assumption of rule by a lord protector, was one of profound change and disequilibrium.

Focusing on writers as major as Milton, Marvell, Herrick, and Vaughan, and as misunderstood as Fane, Overton, and the poet Eliza, the fifteen essays in this collection discuss not only the representation of the civil wars but also the ways in which the civil wars were anticipated, refigured, and refracted in the century's literary imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.