Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
INTRODUCTION: The ‘‘remanence’’ of the past: the early modern text in exile......Page 11
CHAPTER 1: Nostalgia and nationalism in New England literature......Page 32
CHAPTER 2: Exile and the semantic education of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan......Page 67
CHAPTER 3: The expulsion from Paradise: Milton, epic and the restoration exiles......Page 97
CHAPTER 4: Sybil’s leaves: Dryden and the historiography of exile......Page 134
Epilogue......Page 159
INTRODUCTION: THE ‘‘REMANENCE ’ ’ OF THE PAST: THE EARLY MODERN TEXT IN EXILE......Page 162
CHAPTER 1: NOSTALGIA AND NATIONALISM IN NEW ENGLAND LITERATURE......Page 170
CHAPTER 2: EXILE AND THE SEMANTIC EDUCATION OF THOMAS HOBBES’S ‘‘LEVIATHAN’’......Page 181
CHAPTER 3: THE EXPULSION FROM PARADISE: MILTON, EPIC AND THE RESTORATION EXILES......Page 189
CHAPTER 4: SYBI L’S LEAVES: DRYDEN AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF EXILE......Page 196
EPILOGUE: THE REMANENCE OF EXILE......Page 204
Index......Page 205