Dryden the Public Writer, 1660-1685 / / George McFadden.
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 imme...
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McFadden, George, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Dryden the Public Writer, 1660-1685 / George McFadden. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015] ©1978 1 online resource (320 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 1516 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Books and Periodicals Frequently Cited -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Dryden the Poet -- ONE. Dryden's Early Attitudes toward Politics and the Heroic -- Two. The Controversy with Sir Robert Howard -- THREE. Dryden and His Betters -- FOUR. Dryden among the Courtiers -- FIVE. Among the Wits -- PART TWO: The Succession Crisis and its Critic -- Six. Aureng-Zebe: The Character of a Loyal Successor -- SEVEN. On Stage: Sophocles, Shakespeare, the Popish Plot -- EIGHT. Absalom and Achitophel -- NINE. The Augustan Interlude (1683-1684) -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Authors, English Early modern, 1500-1700 Biography. Politics and literature Great Britain History 17th century. POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 9783110426847 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature 9783110413533 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691616490 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400870226 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400870226 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400870226.jpg |
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