Dryden and enthusiasm : literature, religion, and politics in Restoration England
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 8390
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198816409
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book covers Dryden’s whole career from the 1650s to the 1690s as well as the reception of his works in the early 1700s. Its extensive research in other contemporary political, religious, and literary works in print and manuscript sets out new contexts for original readings of Dryden’s most famous poems, essays, and plays. The book’s focus on enthusiasm offers an ambitious interpretative framework in which to understand Dryden and seventeenth-century literary history. By stressing the multi-valent importance of emotion and the irrational to writers of the period, the book marks a major reorientation of scholarship on Restoration literature.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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