Feigned commonwealths
Subtitle: the country-house poem and the fashioning of the ideal community
By: Hugh Jenkins.
Series: Medieval & Renaissance literary studies; Medieval and Renaissance literary studies
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Country homes in literature.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History.; Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.; Community life in literature.; Social values in literature.; State, The, in literature.; Dwellings in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: "That he which can faine a common-wealth": fashioning the ideal community; title: From common wealth to commonwealth: the alchemy of "to Penshurst"; title: The cavalier country house; title: Puritan revisions: Milton's Comus and Marvell's "Upon Appleton house"; title: Petitions for absolute retreat: genre and gender in the country-house poems of Aemilia Lanyer and Ann Finch; title: Building the colonial country house: Robinson Crusoe; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.