Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Literature, culture, and society in Restoration England Gerald MacLean; Part I. Drama and Politics: 2. The quest for consensus the lord mayor's shows in the 1670s John Patrick Montano; 3. Politics and the restoration masque the case of Dido and Aeneas Andrew Walkling; 4. Factionary politics John Crowne's Henry VI Nancy Klein Maguire; Part II. Authorship and Authority: 5. Pepys and the private parts of monarchy James Grantham Turner; 6. Milton, Samson Agonistes, and the Restoration Blair Worden; 7. Milton, Dryden, and the politics of literary controversy Steven N. Zwicker; 8. 'Is he like other men?' The meaning of the Principia Mathematica, and the author as idol Robert Iliffe; Part III. Women and Writing: 9. A woman's best setting out is silence: the writings of Hannah Wolley Elaine Hobby; 10. Obedient subjects? The loyal self in some later seventeenth-century women's memoirs N. H. Keeble; Part IV. Empire and Aftermaths: 11. Seventeenth-century Quaker women: displacement, colonialism, and anti-slavery discourse Moira Ferguson; 12. Republicanism, absolutism and universal monarchy: English popular sentiment during the third Dutch war Steven C. A. Pincus; 13. Reinterpreting the 'glorious revolution': Catharine Macaulay and radical response Bridget Hill.
