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Originally published in 1972, Restoration Literature is a landmark in the study of seventeenth-century English literature. By assembling a diverse range of critical voices, Love captures the vibrancy and complexity of a period marked by both artistic innovation and ideological strife. The book remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how literature responded to-and helped shape-the Restoration's turbulent cultural landscape. This book rehabilitates the literature of the restoration period and shows it to be worth the most careful critical attention. The book remains a foundational text for students and scholars interested in the complex interplay of politics, performance, satire, and poetic innovation that defined the era.

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Introduction Harold Love. 1. Restoration Comedy and the Provok'd Critic Andrew Bear 2. Restoration Tragedy as Total Theatre Philip Parsons 3. The Extravagant Rake in Restoration Comedy Robert Jordan 4. The Last of the Epics: The Rejection of the Heroic in Paradise Lost and Hudibras Michael Wilding 5. Thomas Traherne: Intellect and Felicity Francis King 6. Rochester and the Traditions of Satire Harold Love 7. The Poetry of John Oldham Harold F. Brooks 8. Two Restoration Prose Writers: Burnet and Halifax K. G. Hamilton 9. Dryden and Literary Good Breeding John Fowler 10. John Dryden, Gavin Douglas and Virgil Mark O'Connor 11. John Dryden's Jacobitism William J. Cameron Appendix: The Last Night's Ramble. 1687.