Heroic mode and political crisis, 1660-1745
By: Elaine McGirr.
Publisher: University of Delware Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780874130430
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Heroic virtue in literature; English literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; National characteristics, British, in literature; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Restoration and reaction; title: Exclusion: the "great plot of the nation"; title: Heroic tragedy: James II and the glorious revolution; title: Heroic counterpoints: Jacobitism and the Whig ascendency; title: Heroic farce: the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.