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Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641–1660
Lois Potter
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Description for Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641–1660
hardcover. This book is a study of the various kinds of royalist writing during the period of the English Civil War and the Interregnum. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 555. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. No dj, remains very good
This book is a study of the various kinds of royalist writing during the period of the English Civil War and the Interregnum, when printing and publishing were largely controlled by Parliament. Lois Potter examines the effectiveness of this control and the means by which writers evaded it: illicit publication; the use of various kinds of code, such as ciphers, emblems, secret languages, symbolism and allegory; the exploitation of genres such as romance and tragicomedy; the submerging of personal identity through literary quotation and allusion. By looking at a very wide sample of texts ranging from anonymous pamphlets to the ... Read more
This book is a study of the various kinds of royalist writing during the period of the English Civil War and the Interregnum, when printing and publishing were largely controlled by Parliament. Lois Potter examines the effectiveness of this control and the means by which writers evaded it: illicit publication; the use of various kinds of code, such as ciphers, emblems, secret languages, symbolism and allegory; the exploitation of genres such as romance and tragicomedy; the submerging of personal identity through literary quotation and allusion. By looking at a very wide sample of texts ranging from anonymous pamphlets to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521255127
SKU
KSG0032606
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