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Secular chains : poetry and the politics of religion from Milton to Pope / Philip Connell
- Author
- Connell, Philip
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: I.COMMONWEALTH -- 1.`Hireling wolves': Poetry, Prophecy, and Republican Religion -- Writing the Godly Republic -- Milton, Marvell, and the Revolutionary Church -- Harrington, Milton, and the Fracturing of the Good Old Cause -- Mosaic Law and the Politics of Spirit in Paradise Lost -- Orphic Song and the End of the Republic -- II.RESTORATION -- 2.The Failure of Uniformity -- `Fanatique Bays' and Augustan Literary Culture -- Royalist Panegyric and the Restoration Church Settlement -- Comprehension, Kingship, and Paradise Regain'd -- Dispensing Power in Samson Agonistes -- 3.`Priests of all Religions are the same': Dryden and the Politics of Irreligion -- Libertine Wit and Political Allegiance in the 1670s -- The Exclusion Crisis and the Rhetoric of Imposture -- Anti-Clericalism and Civil Idolatry in Absalom and Achitophel -- Dryden's Religion and the Politico-Theology of Tory Reaction -- III.ENLIGHTENMENT -- 4.Whig Poetics and the Church in Danger -- The Rage of Religious Party -- John Dennis and the Reformation of Poetry -- Toland and Shaftesbury: Fable, Fiction, and Rhapsody -- From Public Religion to Polite Letters -- The Sacheverell Trial and the Making of the Characteristicks -- 5.The Literature of Physico-Theology -- Newton's Fame and the Bounds of Orthodoxy -- Cosmic Whiggism in The Seasons -- Ecclesiastical Faction and the Politics of Enthusiasm -- Thomson among the Patriots -- 6.Alexander Pope and the Modes of Faith -- An Essay on Man and the Limits of Enlightenment -- Pope's Early Career and the Later Stuart Church -- A Priestless Muse: Satire, Religion, and Party in the 1730s -- The Dunciad and the War on Free-Thought.
- Summary
- 'Secular Chains' uses close readings of the work of a range of canonical poets to re-evaluate the relationship between English literary culture and the political challenges to religious authority that emerged in the wake of the civil wars, and which culminated in the intellectual ferment of the early Enlightenment.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780191820496 (ebook)
- Note
- This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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