The Complicity of Imagination: The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture

by Robin Grey

Book Overview

The Complicity of Imagination examines the rich and complex relationship among four nineteenth-century authors and the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England. This study portrays an American Renaissance whose writers were deeply enough read in the literature and controversies of seventeenth-century England to appropriate its cultural artifacts for their own purposes. By exploring the broader cultural implications of intertextual relationships,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521105544
• ISBN13: 9780521105545
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"