Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-house Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community

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Duquesne University Press, 1998 - 265 من الصفحات
In this work, Hugh Jenkins seeks to retrieve from early modern texts a utopian vision of community - and cites Karl Marx, Christopher Hill and Raymond Williams as explanatory authorities. He argues that however congealed or residual the ideology of communality and charitable festivity may seem in the work of Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvel, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Finch, one would be short-sighted not to recognize in their efforts the value of their feigning, at least, some sense of ideal community. Jenkins advises readers to consider these country-house poems, along with Milton's Comus and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, as documents of the exploitation of labour - barbarism - and of the magical resolution of social conflict - utopian desire.

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ONE That He which can faine
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THREE The Cavalier Country House
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FOUR
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2 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة

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Hugh Jenkins is assistant professor of English at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He has published articles on Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell and Daniel Defoe, as well as several on John Milton.

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