1st Edition
Liberty and Love English Literature and Society, 1640–88
Introduction Part 1: Sweet Land of Liberty 1. Prologue: Jacobean and Caroline political trends 2. Denham’s ‘Cooper’s Hill’ and the constitution: a royalist viewpoint 3. Marvell and the constitution: a Parliamentarian viewpoint 4. Liberty and order: the wider spectrum: Filmer – Hobbes – The Putney Debates – Locke 5. Milton: the political pamphlets and Paradise Lost 6. Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel and the Popish Plot 7. The satirical aftermath: Dryden, Oldham, Shadwell and Settle Part 2: The Woman’s Workhouse 8. Prologue: ‘Love, the Life of Life’ 9. The inheritance from the Middle Ages 10. Propagation and contraception in the seventeenth century 11. Love, sex and attitudes to women in the poetry 12. The theory and practice of Protestant marriage 13. Milton: from tracts on divorce to Paradise Lost 14. ‘Imparadist in One Anothers Arms’ or ‘The Ecclesiastical Mouse-trap’: marriage in Restoration comedy Postscript: The flight of the butterflies
Biography
Peter Malekin (1931–2014) was an academic who taught at the University of Durham for many years, as well as universities of Tübingen, Baghdad and Uppsala. He had experience of broadcasting, had worked as translator and had done a great deal of public speaking in England and Ireland. His interests included mysticism, approached non-denominationally as a phenomenon of the human mind.
