Andrew McRae examines the relation between literature and politics at a pivotal moment in English history. He argues that the most influential and incisive poli

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The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in plays, novels and the press as

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This book analyzes the distinctive contribution to literary history of early-seventeenth-century hand-written English poetry anthologies. Compiled by manuscript