Jenkins Hugh 1958

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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English poetry--History and criticism--Early modern 15001700
Country homes in literature
Politics and literature--History--Great Britain--17th century
Politics and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century
English poetry--History and criticism--18th century
Literature and society--History--Great Britain
Aristocracy Social class in literature
Community life in literature
Social values in literature
State The in literature

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