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Description

1. 307 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Discusses the fate of the family=state analogy in 17th century English literature.

Subject

1. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
2. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
3. Genealogy > Political aspects > History > Great Britain > 17th century
4. Families > Political aspects > History > Great Britain > 17th century
5. Genealogy in literature
6. Families in literature
7. Inheritance and succession in literature

Contents

1. Assessing the politics of genealogy. The Jesuit, the King, and a lady: form and Jacobean patriarchalism -- John Milton's family politics from Charles I to Charles II. Denying patricide; defining the domestic. Copulating with the mother: Paradise lost and the politics of begetting. Milton's birth abortive: remaking family at the end of Paradise lost -- Chasing shadows: reproductive time in the exclusion crisis. Haunted times. Cheating "death's vast jaws": the troubled promise of reproduction in Lucy Hutchison's Order and disorder. "In his son renew'd": resisting reproduction in John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel -- Beyond the family-state analogy: reconsidering genealogy. A world without father or mother: Mary Astell's A serious proposal to the ladies.

Call number

1. JFE 11-2291

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Murphy, Erin, 1971-

Title

1. Familial forms : politics and genealogy in seventeenth-century English literature / Erin Murphy.

Imprint

1. Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2010006335

ISBN

1. 9781611490107 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 1611490103 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9781611490114 (electronic)
4. 1611490111 (electronic)
5. 087413093X (alk. paper)
6. 9780874130935 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 11-2291