Pen for a Party : : Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts / / Phillip Harth.

Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems Absalom and Achitophel and The...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1993
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1751
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
CHAPTER 1. The Pulpit --
CHAPTER 2. Parliament and the Press --
CHAPTER 3. The Nation 's Savior --
CHAPTER 4. The Association --
CHAPTER 5. A Second Restoration --
Epilogue --
APPENDIX 1. Political Allusions in Dryden 's Prologues and Epilogues, 1678-1684 --
APPENDIX 2. The Misplaced Lines in Absalom ,and Achitophel --
Abbreviations and Note on Documentation --
Notes --
Index
Summary:Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems Absalom and Achitophel and The Medall, and the dramatic works The Duke of Guise and Albion and Albanius, have commonly been considered in relation to such public events as the Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Tory Reaction, but that approach does not explain the noticeable differences among these works or the specific purposes for which they were written. Harth argues that the immediate contexts of these works were not the historical events themselves but a constantly developing series of propaganda offensives, both Tory and Whig, designed to influence public opinion toward fluctuating conditions.Pen for a Party traces the halting process by which the government of Charles II developed propaganda as an effective instrument for gradually winning the public's acquiescence in its divisive policies. It likewise shows how Dryden fashioned his own works to meet the needs of this propaganda campaign in each of its successive phases.Originally published in 1993.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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781400872787
9783110413441
9783110413533
9783110442496
DOI:10.1515/9781400872787
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
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