Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714

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Introduction: national transitions, literary transitions Elizabeth Sauer
Part I. Generic Transitions:
1. Pedantry and party politics: essays in the public sphere Denise Gigante
2. 'Familiar things … made new': epic and mock-epic verse, 1660–1714 Mark Blackwell
3. The satiric contract David Rosen ‎and Aaron Santesso
4. Tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy and the incubation of new genres:
1660–1714 Marcie Frank
5. Travel literature and the emergent nation Clement Hawes
Part II. Ideological Transitions:
6. Literature, religion and party politics, 1660–1714 Melinda S. Zook
7. The dissidence of dissent in late seventeenth-century English literature Elizabeth Sauer
8. Power and profit: literature and the English commercial empire, 1651–1714 Ramesh Mallipeddi
9. 'Heaven's center, nature's lap': literary models of nation and empire, 1660–1714 Suvir Kaul
10. Brave new world: a Restoration debate Margaret Kean
Part III. Cultural Transitions:
11. Female wits and the late Stuart stage Bridget Orr
12. Deregulating the libertine mind: wine, wit, and wanton fancy James Steintrager
13. After libertinism: the passions of the polite Christian hero Christopher Tilmouth
14. Chymistry, primary qualities, and empirical knowledge Helen Thompson
15. Information and irony Sean Silver
Part IV. Local Transitions:
16. Nation and environment in Britain, 1660–1705 Robert Markley
17. Creating the territories of recreation: parks, squares, and the exotic in London's little wilderness Kevin L. Cope
18. Early English sinology, 1577–1688 William Poole
19. John Dryden and Anne Killigrew: postmortems on the Restoration Jennifer Brady
‎20. In defense of the short eighteenth century:
1714 as year zero Pat Rogers.

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