Su Fang Ng

Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the Civil Wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions of political community. They used family metaphors to debate the limits of political authority, rethink gender roles, and imagine community in a period of social and political upheaval. While critical attention has focused on how the common analogy linking father and king, family and state, bolstered royal and paternal claims to authority and obedience, its meaning was in fact intensely contested. In this wide-ranging study, Su Fang Ng analyses the language and metaphors used to describe the relationship between politics and the family in both literary and political writings and offers a fresh perspective on how seventeenth-century literature reflected as well as influenced political thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511267253
• Artikelnr.: 38211738

Autorenporträt

Su Fang Ng is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: strange bedfellows: patriarchalism and revolutionary thought
Part I. Revolutionary Debates: 1. Father-Kings and Amazon Queens
2. Milton's band of brothers
3. Hobbes and the absent family
4. Cromwellian fatherhood and its discontents
Part II. Restoration Imaginings: Interchapter: Revolutionary legacies
5. Execrable sons and second Adams: family politics in Paradise Lost
6. Marriage and monarchy: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World and the fictions of Queenly rule
7. Marriage and discipline in early Quakerism
Epilogue: the family-state analogy's eighteenth-century afterlife.