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Transforming the word : prophecy, poetry, and politics in England, 1650-1742
- Title
- Transforming the word : prophecy, poetry, and politics in England, 1650-1742 / Margery A. Kingsley.
- Author
- Kingsley, Margery A., 1965-
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ ; Associated University Presses, ©2001.
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- Description
- 223 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The radical prophets of the English civil wars were fascinating figures, living at the very margins of seventeenth-century English society. Combining a devout belief in the power of divine inspiration with a passionate desire for social change and a distinctly eccentric rhetorical style, these men and women brazenly challenged civil and religious authority and flouted social decorum, unnerving their contemporaries and fanning fears of social anarchy. Unfortunately, far too little is known about the fate of their ideas, their writings, and their successors between the restoration of Charles II and the rise of the poetry of sensibility in the mid-eighteenth century.
- Too often they are assumed merely to have disappeared soon after 1660, snuffed out by a restored monarchy and an Augustan culture antithetical to their aims, and lost to sight until they were rediscovered in the late 1720s by a new generation of poets intrigued by vatic inspiration."
- "The purpose of this study is to suggest a rather different legacy for the radical prophets of the mid-seventeenth century. It contends, first of all, that prophecy was a significant genre for the writers of the Restoration and early eighteenth century - far more prevalent, more pervasive, and more influential in the decades following 1660 than has traditionally been acknowledged. From Butler's Hudibras, to Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, to the portrayal of Settle in Pope's first version of The Dunciad, prophets rant, rage, and wreak havoc through even the most canonical of Augustan texts, revealing the period's obsession with the figure of the radical prophet."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1500-1799
- English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism
- Political poetry, English > History and criticism
- Prophecies in literature
- Prophecy in literature
- English poetry
- English poetry > Early modern
- Political poetry, English
- Politics and literature
- Prophecies in literature
- Prophecy in literature
- Politische Lyrik
- Prophetie
- Vorsehung
- Versdichtung
- Gedichten
- Engels
- Politiek
- Profetieën
- Geschichte 1650-1742
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Polemic, Culture, and Conflict -- 2. Joining with Self-Interests: Royalist Reconstruction and the Popular Press -- 3. Interpreting Providence: The Politics of Prophecy in Restoration Polemic -- 4. "High on a Throne of his own Labours rear'd": Mac Flecknoe, Prophecy, and Cultural Myth -- 5. Providence, Party, and Hegemony in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees -- 6. A Taste for Spectacle: The Ambivalence of Satiric Judgment in Pope's Dunciad -- Tail-Piece: The Fate of Prophetic Hegemony.
- ISBN
- 0874137497
- 9780874137491
- LCCN
- 2001027382
- OCLC
- ocm46402257
- 46402257
- SCSB-14503776
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library