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The Seventeenth Century The Intellectual and Cultural Context ofEnglish Literature, 1603-1700 Longman Literature in English Series General Editors: David Carroll and Michael Wheeler Lancaster University For a complete list oftitles see pages x and xi The Seventeenth Century The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700 Graham Parry ~ ~~o~~~~n~~~up LONDON AND NEWYORK Firstpublished1989byPearsonEducationLimited Published2013byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017,USA RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup, aninformabusiness Copyright©1989,Taylor&Francis. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorre producedorutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical, orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingpho tocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageorretriev alsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Notices Knowledgeandbestpracticeinthisfieldareconstantlychanging. Asnewresearchandexperiencebroadenourunderstanding, changesinresearchmethods,professionalpractices,ormedical treatmentmaybecomenecessary. Practitionersandresearchersmustalwaysrelyontheirownexpe rienceandknowledgeinevaluatingandusinganyinformation, methods,compounds,orexperimentsdescribedherein.Inusing suchinformationormethodstheyshouldbemindfuloftheirown safetyandthesafetyofothers,includingpartiesforwhomthey haveaprofessionalresponsibility. Tothefullestextentofthelaw,neitherthePublishernortheau thors'contributors,oreditors,assumeanyliabilityforanyinjury and/ordamagetopersonsorpropertyasamatterofproductslia bility,negligenceorotherwise,orfromanyuseoroperationofany methods,products,instructions,orideascontainedinthemateri alherein. ISBN13:978-0-582-49376-6 (pbk) BRITISHUBRARYCATALOGUINGINPUBUCATIONDATA Parry,Graham. Theseventeenthcentury:the intellectualandcultural contextofEnglishliterature 1603-1700.(Longman LiteratureinEnglishseries) 1.EnglishLiterature,1558 1702- Criticalstudies. I.Title. II.Series. 820.9'003 UBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGING-IN-PUBUCATIONDATA Parry,Graham. Theseventeenthcentury:the intellectualandcultural contextofEnglishliterature,1603-1700/GrahamParry. p. em.- (LongmanliteratureinEnglishseries) Bibiography:p. Includesindex: ISBN0-582-49377-3. ISBN0-582-49376-5(pbk.) 1.Englishliterature- Earlymodern,1500-1700- - Historyandcriticism. 2.Literatureandsociety- England - History- 17thcentury. 3.England- Intellectuallife - 17thcentury. 4.England- Civilization- 17th century. I.Title. II.Series. PR438.S63P37 1989 820'.9'004- dc1988-1130 Contents List ofPlates vu Acknowledgements VIll Editor's Preface ix Longman Literature in English Series x Author's Preface xu Introduction 1 Part One 7 1 The Character ofJacobean Kingship, 1603-1625 9 2 The Iconography ofCharles I, 1625-1649 28 3 The Arts in Stuart England 42 Biography: Sir Henry Wotton 72 Lady Anne Clifford 78 4 Cultural Life during the Civil Wars and the Commonwealth, 1642-1659 82 5 The Restoration Ethos, 1660-1688 107 Biography: John Evelyn 127 Part Two 133 6 The Scientific Milieu 135 Biography: Sir Kcnelm Digby 160 vi THE SEVENT 7 Antiquarianism: The Relevance ofthe Past 166 8 Varieties ofReligious Experience 181 Biography: Sir Thomas Browne 206 Richard Baxter 208 9 Political Theory 212 Postscript 237 Chronology 240 General Bibliographies 255 (i) Cultural and intellectual history 255 (ii) Religion 256 (iii) Politics and political thought 258 (iv) The scientific movement 259 (v) Art and architecture 260 (vi) Music 261 (vii) Social history 262 Individual Authors 263 Notes on biography, major works, and suggested further reading 263 Index 280 List of Plates Between pages 114 and 115. 1 KingJames, engraving by Crispin van der Passe, 1613. 2 The Rustic Arch ('England's Arbour'), erected for King James's London entry in 1604. 3 Prince Henry, portrait by unknown artist at Dunster Castle. 4 Arundel House, etching by Wenceslaus Hollar. 5 Swakeleys, Middlesex. 6 Clarendon House, Piccadilly. 7 Eikon Basilike, frontispiece, 1649. 8 Van Dyck, Charles I on Horseback, under a Triumphal Arch, 1637. 9 Van Dyck, Prince Charles Louis and Prince Rupert, 1637' 10 William Dobson, portrait ofEndymion Porter. 11 Samuel Cooper, miniature ofOliver Cromwell. 12 Coronation Arch for Charles II. 13 Charles II, a portrait after P. Lely. 14 Lely, Anne Hyde, Duchess ofYork. 15 The Advancement ofLearning, title-page to the 1640 edition. 16 The History ofthe Royal Society, frontispiece, 1667. 17 Leviathan, title-page, 1651. 18 Edward Pierce, Bust ofWren, 1673. 19 Wren's Sheldonian Theatre, engraving by Loggan. 20 Bethlehem Hospital, designed by Robert Hooke, 1676. Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce illustra tions: Wilton House (cover picture); the National Trust (Plate 3); the Louvre Art Gallery (Plate 9); the Tate Gallery (Plate to); the Duke of Buccleuch (Plate 11): the National Portrait Gallery (Plate 13); and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Plate 14). Editors' Preface The multi-volume Longman Literature in English Series provides students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. Each volume gives a coherent account of a clearly defined area, and the series, when complete, will offer a practical and comprehensive guide to literature written in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The aim ofthe series as a whole is to show that the most valuable and stimulating approach to literature is that based upon an awareness ofthe relations between literary forms and their historical context. Thus the areas covered by most of the separate volumes are defined by period and genre. Each volume offers new informed ways of reading literary works, and provides guidance to further reading in an extensive reference section. As well as studies on all periods ofEnglish and American literature, the series includes books on criticism and literary theory, and on the intellectual and cultural context. A comprehensive series of this kind must ofcourse include other literature written in English, and therefore a group of volumes deals with Irish and Scottish literature, and the literature ofIndia, Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and Canada. The forty-seven volumes of the series cover the following areas: pre Renaissance English Literature, English Poetry, English Drama, English Fiction, English Prose, Criticism and Literary Theory, Intel lectual and Cultural Context, American Literature, Other Literature in English. David Carroll Michael Wheeler
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