The Sensational Restoration

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H. James Jensen
Indiana University Press, 1996 - 450 pages

English Restoration writing, known for its skeptical libertinism, addressed social mores, the arts, economics, politics, cynicism, religion, philosophy, and youth, class, and gender. The anthology begins with excerpts from Hobbes's Leviathan and includes Behn's The Rover, Wycherley's The Plain Dealer, Shadwell's The Virtuoso, and many other selections--all introduced and annotated by James Jensen.

 

Contents

Sir Walter Charleton The Ephesian Matron
42
Poems
79
Sir George Etherege The Man of Mode
141
William Wycherley The Plain Dealer
181
Aphra Behn The Rover
283
Thomas Shadwell The Virtuoso
365
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H. JAMES JENSEN is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He is the author of A Glossary of John Dryden's Critical Terms and The Muses' Concord.

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