Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2477-3 (ISBN)
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Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars exposes writers’ reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history. In case studies of both familiar genres (country house poem, love lyric, epic) and understudied ones (emblem book, prose romance), it shows how the conservative language of "constancy" was used to justify opposing positions in the period’s most pressing controversies, including monarchical rule, ecclesiastical order, Catholicism, and England’s relationship to the wider world. At the same time, writers like John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Hester Pulter, Percy Herbert, and others establish the virtue’s importance to literary tradition, as they use "constancy" to retain, yet reimagine inherited formal structures and strategies. This book thus uses women’s writing and non-canonical texts to highlight cross-factional conservatism and international investment in what scholars often describe as the "English Revolution".
Rachel Dunn Zhang is an assistant professor of early modern literature at Emerson College. Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including Milton Studies, Ben Jonson Journal, Studies in Philology, Early Modern Women, The Seventeenth Century and Notes and Queries. An authority on Hester Pulter, Zhang is also a contributing editor and reviewer for The Pulter Project.
Introduction: Polemic, Genre, and Inconstant Constancy in the Civil War Period
1. Confronting (In)Constancy in the Country House Poem
2. Love, Oaths, and Lyric Paradox in the Engagement Crisis
3. Carnival of the Animals: The Competing Constancies of Hester Pulter’s Emblems
4. Catholicism, Romance, and Inconstant Constancy in Sir Percy Herbert’s Princess Cloria
5. Cuckoo Constancy? Paradise Regained, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Revision of Classical Epic
Epilogue: Imagined Ideals beyond the Civil Wars
Appendix – Princess Cloria Character Key
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 7 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-2477-1 / 1399524771 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-2477-3 / 9781399524773 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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