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Author | : Andrew J. Counter |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198785992 |
When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they lived at a historical turning point, a transitional moment whose outcome, though still uncertain, would transform the French way of life--beginning with the French way of love. The literary works of the Bourbon Restoration ceaselessly return to the themes of love, sex, and marriage, partly as vital cultural questions in their own right, but also as a means of critiquing the deficiencies of past regimes, negotiating the politics of the present, and imagining the shape of the political future. In the literature of the Restoration, love and politics become entwined in a mutually metaphorical embrace. The Amorous Restoration, the first book in English devoted to literary and cultural life under the last Bourbon kings, considers this relationship in all its richness and many contradictions. Long neglected as a drab historical backwater, the Restoration emerges here as a vibrant era, one rife with sharp cultural and political disagreements, and possessed of an especially refined sense of allusion, discretion, and even humour. Drawing on literature, journalism, political writing, life writing, and gossip, The Amorous Restoration vividly recreates the erotic sensibilities of a pivotal moment in the transition from an amorous old regime to erotic--and political--modernity.
Author | : Andrew J. Counter |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-09-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191089109 |
When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they lived at a historical turning point, a transitional moment whose outcome, though still uncertain, would transform the French way of life—beginning with the French way of love. The literary works of the Bourbon Restoration ceaselessly return to the themes of love, sex, and marriage, partly as vital cultural questions in their own right, but also as a means of critiquing the deficiencies of past regimes, negotiating the politics of the present, and imagining the shape of the political future. In the literature of the Restoration, love and politics become entwined in a mutually metaphorical embrace. The Amorous Restoration, the first book in English devoted to literary and cultural life under the last Bourbon kings, considers this relationship in all its richness and many contradictions. Long neglected as a drab historical backwater, the Restoration emerges here as a vibrant era, one rife with sharp cultural and political disagreements, and possessed of an especially refined sense of allusion, discretion, and even humour. Drawing on literature, journalism, political writing, life writing, and gossip, The Amorous Restoration vividly recreates the erotic sensibilities of a pivotal moment in the transition from an amorous old regime to erotic—and political—modernity.
Author | : Anne E. Linton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2022-03-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316511820 |
A landmark study in the history of sexuality which redefines thinking about sex and gender in nineteenth-century France and beyond.
Author | : Aphra Behn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1915 |
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Author | : Edward Marston |
Publisher | : Allison & Busby |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-01-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0749009683 |
London 1667. Acclaimed beauty and singer Harriet Gow is the star performer at the famous Theatre Royal on Drury Lane, as well as the favourite mistress of King Charles II. After seeing her perform, Christopher Redmayne is likewise captivated so he is intrigued when the King urgently summons him - it seems Harriet has been kidnapped. Redmayne, with the help of his friend Jonathan Bale is engaged to resolve this delicate affair and they quickly begin delving into Harriet's background. The façade of elegance soon begins to crumble in the face of their investigations, and just as Redmayne and Bale start to question whether Harriet is really the victim or the guilty party, a brutal murder provides the answer...
Author | : Patrick Vincent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2023-11-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108497063 |
Examining Romanticism's pan-European circulation of people, ideas, and texts, this history re-analyses the period and Britain's place in it.
Author | : William John Lawrence |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : John Streeter Manifold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Recorder (Musical instrument) |
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Author | : Herman Joseph Heuser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : Harold Love |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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The decades between 1660 and 1700 were a time of vigorous questioning, momentous political experiment, and exhilarating change in England. This comprehensive volume of Restoration poetry is organized by themes ranging from libertines to moralists and visionaries. The book covers writing by such well-known poets as Milton, Dryden, Marvell, and Aphra Behn, along with selections by less familiar authors. Includes biographical notes on each poet.