Feigned commonwealths : the country-house poem and the fashioning of the ideal community /
Hugh Jenkins.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c1998.
- xi, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
- Medieval & Renaissance literary studies .
- Medieval and Renaissance literary studies .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258) and index.
1. "That He which can faine a Common-wealth": Fashioning the Ideal Community -- 2. From Common Wealth to Commonwealth: The Alchemy of "To Penshurst" -- 3. The Cavalier Country House -- 4. Puritan Revisions: Milton's Comus and Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" -- 5. Petitions for Absolute Retreat: Genre and Gender in the Country-House Poems of Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Finch -- 6. Building the Colonial Country House: Robinson Crusoe.
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