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Literature and the politics of family in seventeenth-century England /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literature and the politics of family in seventeenth-century England // Su Fang Ng.
remainder title:	Literature & the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England
Author:	Ng, Su Fang,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - Early modern, 1500-1700 -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483837
ISBN:	9780511483837 (ebook)

Literature and the politics of family in seventeenth-century England /
Ng, Su Fang,

Literature and the politics of family in seventeenth-century England /Literature & the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century EnglandSu Fang Ng. - 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: strange bedfellows: patriarchalism and revolutionary thought; Part I. Revolutionary Debates: 1. Father-Kings and Amazon Queens; 2. Milton's band of brothers; 3. Hobbes and the absent family; 4. Cromwellian fatherhood and its discontents; Part II. Restoration Imaginings: Interchapter: Revolutionary legacies; 5. Execrable sons and second Adams: family politics in Paradise Lost; 6. Marriage and monarchy: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World and the fictions of Queenly rule; 7. Marriage and discipline in early Quakerism; Epilogue: the family-state analogy's eighteenth-century afterlife.

A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the Civil Wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions of political community. They used family metaphors to debate the limits of political authority, rethink gender roles, and imagine community in a period of social and political upheaval. While critical attention has focused on how the common analogy linking father and king, family and state, bolstered royal and paternal claims to authority and obedience, its meaning was in fact intensely contested. In this wide-ranging study, Su Fang Ng analyses the language and metaphors used to describe the relationship between politics and the family in both literary and political writings and offers a fresh perspective on how seventeenth-century literature reflected as well as influenced political thought.

ISBN: 9780511483837 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

558059
English literature
--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700

LC Class. No.: PR438.P65 / N4 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/358

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