This book explores ideas of enthusiasm, or divine inspiration, in the works of the poet, dramatist, and literary critic John Dryden. It offers a new view of a major seventeenth-century writer and also examines the complex political and religious tensions implicit in Dryden's interest in enthusiasm.
This book explores ideas of enthusiasm, or divine inspiration, in the works of the poet, dramatist, and literary critic John Dryden. It offers a new view of a major seventeenth-century writer and also examines the complex political and religious tensions implicit in Dryden's interest in enthusiasm.
John West was educated at Oxford and Warwick. His research and teaching focus on seventeenth-century British literature and culture. He is co-editor with Andrew McRae of Literature of the Stuart Successions: An Anthology, published with Manchester University Press, and has also published on the literature of the 1688 Revolution.
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Introduction 1: The Politics of the Fancy in Dryden's Early Literary Criticism 2: Enthusiasm and Political Crisis 3: Dryden and the Cultivation of the Restoration Pindaric Ode 4: Dryden's Post-Revolutionary Theology of Providence Conclusion: Dryden and Whig Literary Culture, 1688-1711
Introduction 1: The Politics of the Fancy in Dryden's Early Literary Criticism 2: Enthusiasm and Political Crisis 3: Dryden and the Cultivation of the Restoration Pindaric Ode 4: Dryden's Post-Revolutionary Theology of Providence Conclusion: Dryden and Whig Literary Culture, 1688-1711
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