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

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) è stata una storica britannica della prima età moderna. Dal 1990 al 2011 è stata Professoressa del Centenario di Studi sul Rinascimento e Direttore del Center for Editing Lives and Letters presso la Queen Mary, University of London. Dal 2008 è stata presidente della Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] È stata membro del Consiglio della Royal Institution, ma si è dimessa da tale incarico nel settembre 2009. Il 1 settembre 2012 si è trasferita con il suo centro di ricerca e il suo personale all'University College London (UCL) per diventare il primo direttore del suo Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.

Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and Its Aftermath: 1640-1690 pdf da 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.