Dryden the Public Writer, 1660-1685

George McFadden (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-64378-6 (ISBN)

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This reinterpretation of Dryden's life and works shows how his writings were influenced by important contemporaries, the power struggles of Restoration politics, and the friendships and rivalries of society. Professor McFadden sees Dryden's poems, plays, and essays as forms of address immediately related to the historical moment and the patron or dedicatee. This approach created a dialogue between the writer and his age that enabled him to interpret some of the deepest and still inchoate social and political attitudes of his day. The author traces Dryden's rise to notoriety, along with the development of the poetic techniques he used to acquire and form his audience. Dryden's work for the theater figures prominently in the analysis, including the prologues, epilogues, and especially the dedications, which have never before been exploited. Historical and biographical findings lead Professor McFadden to new readings of major works, lie also draws important conclusions bearing upon the genre of the heroic play, the relationships between lampoon, satire, and comedy in Restoration writing, and the sense in which the term "Augustan" may be applied to that writing.
Finally, he demonstrates that Dryden was a writer in the fullest contemporary sense of the word: a worker in language, carrying on a creative exchange with the contingencies and forms of his time. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Books and Periodicals Frequently Cited, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*ONE. Dryden's Early Attitudes toward Politics and the Heroic, pg. 23*Two. The Controversy with Sir Robert Howard, pg. 59*THREE. Dryden and His Betters, pg. 88*FOUR. Dryden among the Courtiers, pg. 111*FIVE. Among the Wits, pg. 139*Six. Aureng-Zebe: The Character of a Loyal Successor, pg. 183*SEVEN. On Stage: Sophocles, Shakespeare, the Popish Plot, pg. 203*EIGHT. Absalom and Achitophel, pg. 227*NINE. The Augustan Interlude (1683-1684), pg. 265*Index, pg. 301

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	624 g
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-691-64378-4 / 0691643784
ISBN-13	978-0-691-64378-6 / 9780691643786
Zustand	Neuware