The Literary Underground in the 1660s
Andrew Marvell, George Wither, Ralph Wallis, and the World of Restoration Satire and Pamphleteering
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 October 2012
- ISBN 9780199660858
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages202 pages
- Size 220x152x17 mm
- Weight 372 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
The Literary Underground in the 1660s sheds new light on a world of political opposition and sedition. It tells the story of three oppositional writers, Andrew Marvell, George Wither, and Ralph Wallis, and their contributions to the restoration literary underground.
MoreLong description:
The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 has commonly been thought to represent a return to political stability and religious consensus following the tumultuous civil wars and the Commonwealth period. However, by analysing underground texts from 1660 to 1670, Stephen Bardle provides a new literary historical narrative of what was in fact one of the most tumultuous periods in English history. This new study contributes to an on-going historical re-evaluation of the Restoration period, a time when terrible plague, the Great Fire of London, and a brutal war against the Dutch quickly undermined the popularity of the new government.
The Literary Underground in the 1660s tells the story of three writers who fuelled the flames of opposition by contributing illicit texts to a small yet intense public sphere via the literary underground. Key texts by Andrew Marvell, including The Garden, are set in the context of under-explored works by the poet and pamphleteer George Wither, and the indomitable satirist Ralph Wallis.
This book draws upon extensive archival research and features neglected manuscript and print sources. As an original study of the literary underground, which sheds light on the vibrancy of political opposition in the 1660s, this book should be of interest to students of radicalism as well as seventeenth-century historians and literary scholars.
The Literary Underground advances Marvell studies by attending to his underexplored early Restoration career and offering astute new readings of the poems he wrote during this turbulent decade.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Resisting Uniformity 1660-1664
The Second Anglo Dutch War 1664-1667
The Second Conventicle Act 1667-1670
Conclusions
Appendix
Bibliography
