Familial forms politics and genealogy in seventeenth-century English literature /

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

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Main Author: Murphy, Erin, 1971-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : Lanham, Md. : University of Delaware Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.