Familial forms politics and genealogy in seventeenth-century English literature / [electronic resource] :
Erin Murphy.
- Newark : Lanham, Md. : University of Delaware Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
- 307 p.
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.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700 Politics and literature--History--Great Britain--17th century. Genealogy--Political aspects--History--Great Britain--17th century. Families--Political aspects--History--Great Britain--17th century. Genealogy in literature. Families in literature. Inheritance and succession in literature.