Rochester and the Pursuit of Pleasure

2024-06-25

Author : Larry D Carver
Release : 2024-06-25
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Download or read book Rochester and the Pursuit of Pleasure written by Larry D Carver. This book was released on 2024-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. It argues that there is a thematic unity--the pursuit of pleasure--underlying his work, that this pursuit is religiously motivated and reflects Rochester's preoccupation with and, finally, acceptance of Christianity.

Rochesteriana

1926 Authors, English

Author : Johannes Prinz
Release : 1926
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Download or read book Rochesteriana written by Johannes Prinz. This book was released on 1926. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England 1580-1720

2015-06-02 History

Author : Kenneth Sheppard
Release : 2015-06-02
Genre : History
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Download or read book Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England 1580-1720 written by Kenneth Sheppard. This book was released on 2015-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atheists generated widespread anxieties between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. In response to such anxieties a distinct genre of religious apologetics emerged in England between 1580 and 1720. By examining the form and the content of the confutation of atheism, Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England demonstrates the prevalence of patterned assumptions and arguments about who an atheist was and what an atheist was supposed to believe, outlines and analyzes the major arguments against atheists, and traces the important changes and challenges to this apologetic discourse in the early Enlightenment.

Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court

2005-08-05 Literary Criticism

Author : J. Webster
Release : 2005-08-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court written by J. Webster. This book was released on 2005-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court examines the performative nature of Restoration libertinism through reports of libertine activities and texts of libertine plays within the context of the fraternization between George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, and William Wycherley. Webster argues that libertines, both real and imagined, performed traditionally secretive acts, including excessive drinking, sex, sedition, and sacrilege, in the public sphere. This eruption of the private into the public challenged a Stuart ideology that distinguished between the nation's public life and the king's and his subjects' private consciences.

The Skeptical Sublime

2001 History

Author : James Noggle
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Skeptical Sublime written by James Noggle. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the role of scepticism in initiating the idea of the sublime in early modern British literature. James Noggle draws on philosophy, intellectual history, and critical theory to illuminate the aesthetic ideology of Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester among other import ant writers of the period. "The Skeptical Sublime" compares the view of sublimity presented by these authors with that of the dominant, liberal tradition of 18th-century criticism to offer a new understanding of how these writers helped construct proto-aesthetic categories that stabilized British culture after years of civil war and revolution, while at the same time their scepticism allowed them to express ambivalence about the emerging social order

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