Title: The English civil wars in the literary imagination
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.
Subjects: History, English literature, Literature and history, Politics and literature, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Literature and the war, War and literature, English literature, history and criticism, English literature--history and criticism, English literature--early modern, 1500-1700--history and criticism, Politics and literature--history, Politics and literature--great britain--history--17th century, Literature and history--history, Literature and history--great britain--history--17th century, History--literature and the war, Pr438.p65 e54 1999, 820.9/358
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, Civil War, 1642-1649