Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution

Sharpe, Kevin and Zwicker, Steven N., Editors

ISBN 10: 0520209206 / ISBN 13: 9780520209206

Published by University Of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution
• Publisher: University Of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520209206
• ISBN 13: 9780520209206
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Softcover Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Softcover Wraps
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Romanticism
  • English Literature Studies

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Synopsis

Refiguring Revolutions presents an original and interdisciplinary reassessment of the cultural and political history of England from 1649 to 1789. Bypassing conventional chronologies and traditional notions of disciplinary divides, editors Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker frame a set of new agendas for, and suggest new approaches to, the study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

Customary periodization by dynasty and century obscures the aesthetic and cultural histories that were enacted between and even by the English Civil Wars and the French Revolution. The authors of the essays in this volume set about returning aesthetics to the center of the master narrative of politics. They focus on topics and moments that illuminate the connection between aesthetic issues of a private or public nature and political culture. Politics between the Puritan Revolution and the Romantic Revolution, these authors argue, was a set of social and aesthetic practices, a narrative of presentations, exchanges, and performances as much as it was a story of monarchies and ministries.

About the Author

Kevin Sharpe is Professor of History at the University of Southampton, England. Author of The Personal Rule of Charles the First (1996), he coedited with Steven Zwicker the influential Politics of Discourse (California, 1987). Steven N. Zwicker, whose most recent book is Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689 (1993), is Professor of English at Washington University, St. Louis.