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Author Ng, Su Fang.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: strange bedfellows -- patriarchalism and revolutionary thought; PART I Revolutionary debates; CHAPTER 1 Father-kings and Amazon queens; CHAPTER 2 Milton's band of brothers; CHAPTER 3 Hobbes and the absent family; CHAPTER 4 Cromwellian fatherhood and its discontents; PART II Restoration imaginings; Interchapter: revolutionary legacies; CHAPTER 5 Execrable sons and second Adams: family politics in Paradise Lost; CHAPTER 6 Marriage and monarchy: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World and the fictions of queenly rule.
Summary An insightful study of how metaphors of the family were used in seventeenth-century literary and political rhetoric.
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Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Families in literature.
Politics in literature.
Politics in literature.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Ng, Su Fang. Literature and the politics of family in seventeenth-century England. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521870313 (DLC) 2007274986 (OCoLC)85689275
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