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Familial forms

by Murphy, Erin,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of Delaware Press ; | Rowman & Littlefield, (Newark : | Lanham, Md. :) Physical details: 307 p.
Subject(s): English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. | Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. | Genealogy -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. | Families -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. | Genealogy in literature. | Families in literature. | Inheritance and succession in literature. | Electronic books.
Year: 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and index.

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.

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

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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