Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and Its Aftermath: 1640-1690 PDF

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) war eine britische Historikerin der frühen Neuzeit. Von 1990 bis 2011 war sie Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies und Direktorin des Centre for Editing Lives and Letters an der Queen Mary, University of London. Seit 2008 war sie Vorsitzende der Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Sie war Mitglied des Rates der Royal Institution, trat jedoch im September 2009 von diesem Posten zurück. Am 1. September 2012 zog sie mit ihrem Forschungszentrum und seinen Mitarbeitern um an das University College London (UCL) als erster Direktor seines Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Forschung in den Geisteswissenschaften.

Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and Its Aftermath: 1640-1690 pdf von Lisa Jardine

Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England - to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America - and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety of contemporary sources comes under scrutiny, including letters, diaries, plays, treatises, translations and poetry. The extent to which the richness and disparateness of these modes of writing militates against or constructs a recognisable 'rhetoric' of exile is one of the book's overriding themes. Also under consideration is the degree to which exilic writing in this period is intended for public consumption, a product of private reflection, or characterised by a coalescence of the two. Importantly, this volume extends the chronological range of the English Revolution beyond 1660 by demonstrating that exile during the Restoration formed a meaningful continuum with displacement during the civil wars of the mid-century. This in-depth and overdue study of prominent and hitherto obscure exiles, conspicuously diverse in political and religious allegiance yet inextricably bound by the shared experience of displacement, will be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.