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Book SynopsisAn innovative account exploring the concepts of 'home' and 'nation' as they developed in Britain between the English Civil War and the Napoleonic Wars. The range of texts and concepts covered by an international team of experts will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars and students of British literature.
Table of Contents1. Introduction A. D. Cousins and Geoffrey Payne; Part I. The English Revolution and the Interregnum: 2. Nation, nature, and poetics: transitions and claspes in Denham's 'Cooper's Hill' and Cavendish's Poems and Fancies L. E. Semler; 3. Home and nation in Andrew Marvell's Bermudas A. D. Cousins; 4. Anne Clifford and Samuel Pepys: diaries and homes Helen Wilcox; 5. Home and away in the poetry of Andrew Marvell and some of his influences and contemporaries Nigel Smith; Part II. Restoration, Glorious Revolution, and Hanoverian Succession: 6. 'Home to our People': nation and kingship in late seventeenth-century political verse Abigail Williams; 7. 'Yet Israel still serves': home and nation in Milton's Samson Agonistes William Walker; 8. 'A thing remote': Defoe and the home in the metropolis and New World Geoffrey Payne; 9. Pope's homes: London, Windsor Forest, and Twickenham Pat Rogers; 10. Samuel Johnson and London Evan Gottlieb; 11. Contesting 'home' in eighteenth-century women's verse Catherine Ingrassia; 12. Home, homeland and the Gothic David Punter; Part III. Revolution in France, Reaction in Britain: 13. Contesting the homeland: Burke and Wollstonecraft Daniel I. O'Neill; 14. Homelands: Blake, Albion, and the French Revolution David Fallon; 15. Jane Austen and the modern home Gary Kelly; 16. 'All things have a home but one': exile and aspiration, pastoral and political in Shelley's The Mask of Anarchy and Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'To Autumn' Geoffrey Payne; 17. Sir Walter Scott: home, nation, and the denial of revolution Dani Napton; Guide to further reading.
