Familial forms [electronic resource] : politics and genealogy in seventeenth-century English literature / Erin Murphy.
Material type: TextPublication details: Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.Description: 307 pSubject(s):- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
- Genealogy -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
- Families -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
- Genealogy in literature
- Families in literature
- Inheritance and succession in literature
- 820.9/358 22
- PR438.P65 M78 2011
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.