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Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History

By Gerald Maclean

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0521416051, 9780521416054, 052147566X, 9780521475662, 9780511518959
LCC
PR437 .L55 1995
Open Library ID
OL1095307M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6645228 bytes)
Pages
308\312
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration shows how the Restoration produced the concept of a national literature crucial to a new nationalist cultural enterprise: questions of national identity and difference, of what it meant to be English or British or both, came to be framed in terms of international trade and imperial ambition; and religious and royal authority gave way before the advance of a secular literary culture geared to the demands of a developing commercial and imperial nation.

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