The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes

by Leah Sinanoglou Marcus

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"Leah Marcus's The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes is a fascinating study of why James and Charles promoted some types of rural sport and festival and of how certain literary texts participated in promoting or critiquing royal policy. . . . Marcus provocatively links texts not often studied in conjunction with one another, and she provides strong and detailed readings of those texts."-Jean...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226504522

ISBN13:9780226504520

Release Date:March 1989

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:330 Pages

Weight:10.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

17th Century English Literature Europe History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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