Familial forms [electronic resource] : politics and genealogy in seventeenth-century English literature / Erin Murphy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.Description: 307 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
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  • PR438.P65 M78 2011eb
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Contents:
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.
Summary: Discusses the fate of the family=state analogy in 17th century English literature.
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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.

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