1st Edition
Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature Exploring Abraham Cowley
Introduction:
Philip Major
1 Abraham Cowley and Print: Paratexts and Contexts
Robert Wilcher
2 Laurels for the Conquered: Cowley, Epic, and History
Warren Chernaik
3 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, Pindaric
Philip Hardie
4 Cowley’s Epic Experiments
Maggie Kilgour
5 Abraham Cowley and the English literary canon
Gail Mobley
6 Abraham Cowley’s 1656 Poems: Form and Context
Victoria Moul
7 The Fruits of Retirement: Political Engagement in the Plantarum Libri Sex
Caroline Spearing
8 Sacred and Secular in Cowley’s Essays
Philip Major
9 ‘An Old and unfashionable building’: Cowley’s dramatic writing and rewriting
Stephania Crowther
10 ‘The Pindarick Way’: Cowley’s Pindarics and the English Libretto
Isaac Harrison Louth
Biography
Philip Major is the author of Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration (Routledge, 2013). He has edited collections of essays on the literature of seventeenth-century exile, Thomas Killigrew, John Denham, Clarendon, and (with Andrew Hopper) Thomas Fairfax. He has also written a number of articles and chapters on seventeenth-century literature.
