Enchanted Ground
Reimagining John Dryden
2nd Edition
Published on 29. October 2004
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-0-8020-8940-3 (ISBN)
Description
At the time of his death in 1700, John Dryden was acknowledged as England's greatest writer, his reputation even rivaling that of Shakespeare. Certainly, whether considered as a poet, a dramatist, or as a critic, Dryden far outstripped his contemporaries in the sheer scope and variety of his literary production. The amazing versatility of his pen was matched only by the transformational energy that shapes individual works, from heroic dramas to great satires.
For Enchanted Ground, Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak have brought together many of the world's experts on Dryden, and their essays reflect a range of new, uniquely twenty-first-century views of him. The book is divided into two sections. The first explores Dryden's role as a public poet who had made himself the voice of the restored Stuart court. The second considers Dryden's relationship to the arts and particularly to the past and to Shakespeare.
Dryden was a poet for all ages. These essays provide fresh readings of Dryden and bring scholarship on him fully up-to-date.
For Enchanted Ground, Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak have brought together many of the world's experts on Dryden, and their essays reflect a range of new, uniquely twenty-first-century views of him. The book is divided into two sections. The first explores Dryden's role as a public poet who had made himself the voice of the restored Stuart court. The second considers Dryden's relationship to the arts and particularly to the past and to Shakespeare.
Dryden was a poet for all ages. These essays provide fresh readings of Dryden and bring scholarship on him fully up-to-date.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-8940-3 (9780802089403)
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Jayne Lewis is a professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Introduction. Jayne Lewis And Maximillian E. Novak
PART I: ENCHANTED GROUND
Dryden and the Consumption of History . Margery Kingsley, Dept. of English, Cameron University, Lawton, OK
Dryden,Marvell, and the Design of Political Poetry . Leo Braudy, Dept. of English, University of South California
Dryden and Dissent . Sharon Achinstein, English Faculty, Oxford University
The Politics of Pastoral Retreat: Dryden's Poem to His Cousin . Michael McKeon, Dept. of English, Rutgers University
Dryden's Emergence as a Political Satirist . David Haley, Dept. of English Language and Literature, University of Minnesota
The Political Economy of All for Love . Richard Kroll, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Wit, Politics, and Religion: Dryden and Gibbon . Susan Staves, Dept. of English, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
How Many Religions Did John Dryden Have? . Steven Zwicker, Dept. of English, Washington University, St. Louis
PART II: THE GROUNDS OF ENCHANTMENT
Anxious Comparisons in John Dryden's Troilus and Cressida . Jennifer Brady, Dept. of English, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Dryden and the Canon: Absorbing and Rejecting the Burden of the Past . Cedric D. Reverand, Dept. of English, University of Wyoming
'Betwixt two Ages cast': Theatrical Dryden . Deborah Payne Fisk, Dept. of Literature, American University, Washington, DC
Dryden's Baroque Dramaturgy: The Case of Aureng-Zebe . Blair Hoxby, Dept. of English, Yale University
'The Rationall Spirituall Part': Dryden and Purcell's Baroque King Arthur . Dianne Dugaw, Dept. of English, University of Oregon
Dryden's Songs . James Winn, Dept. of English, Boston University
'Thy Lovers were all untrue': Sexual Overreaching in the Heroic Plays and Alexander's Feast . James Grantham Turner, Dept. of English, University of Californa, Berkeley
PART I: ENCHANTED GROUND
Dryden and the Consumption of History . Margery Kingsley, Dept. of English, Cameron University, Lawton, OK
Dryden,Marvell, and the Design of Political Poetry . Leo Braudy, Dept. of English, University of South California
Dryden and Dissent . Sharon Achinstein, English Faculty, Oxford University
The Politics of Pastoral Retreat: Dryden's Poem to His Cousin . Michael McKeon, Dept. of English, Rutgers University
Dryden's Emergence as a Political Satirist . David Haley, Dept. of English Language and Literature, University of Minnesota
The Political Economy of All for Love . Richard Kroll, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Wit, Politics, and Religion: Dryden and Gibbon . Susan Staves, Dept. of English, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
How Many Religions Did John Dryden Have? . Steven Zwicker, Dept. of English, Washington University, St. Louis
PART II: THE GROUNDS OF ENCHANTMENT
Anxious Comparisons in John Dryden's Troilus and Cressida . Jennifer Brady, Dept. of English, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Dryden and the Canon: Absorbing and Rejecting the Burden of the Past . Cedric D. Reverand, Dept. of English, University of Wyoming
'Betwixt two Ages cast': Theatrical Dryden . Deborah Payne Fisk, Dept. of Literature, American University, Washington, DC
Dryden's Baroque Dramaturgy: The Case of Aureng-Zebe . Blair Hoxby, Dept. of English, Yale University
'The Rationall Spirituall Part': Dryden and Purcell's Baroque King Arthur . Dianne Dugaw, Dept. of English, University of Oregon
Dryden's Songs . James Winn, Dept. of English, Boston University
'Thy Lovers were all untrue': Sexual Overreaching in the Heroic Plays and Alexander's Feast . James Grantham Turner, Dept. of English, University of Californa, Berkeley