{"product_id":"familial-forms","title":"Familial Forms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFamilial Forms\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length study to examine how literary writers engaged the politics of genealogy that helped define the \"century of revolution.\" By demonstrating how conflicts over the family-state analogy intersected with the period's battles over succession, including: the ascent of James I, the execution of Charles I, disputes over the terms of the Interregnum government, the Restoration of Charles II, the Exclusion Crisis, the deposition of James II, the ascent of William and Mary, and Anne's failure to produce a surviving heir, this study provides a new map of the seventeenth-century politics of family in England. Beginning with a reconsideration of Jacobean patriarchalism, \u003ci\u003eFamilial Forms\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the work of John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson, John Dryden, and Mary Astell. From their contrasting political and gendered positions, these authors contemplated and contested the relevance of marriage and kinship to government. Their writing illuminates two crucial elements of England's conflicts. First, the formal qualities of poems and prose tracts reveal that not only was there a competition among different versions of the family-state analogy, but also a competition over its very status as an analogy. Second, through their negotiations of linear and nonlinear forms, Milton, Hutchinson, Dryden, and Astell demonstrate the centrality of temporality to the period's political battles.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThrough close textual analysis of poetry, political tracts, parliamentary records, and nonliterary genealogies, \u003ci\u003eFamilial Forms\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh understanding of the seventeenth-century politics of genealogy. It also provides new answers to long-standing critical questions about the poetic form of canonical works, such as \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbsalom and Achitophel\u003c\/i\u003e, and illuminates the political significance of newly-canonical works by women writers, including Aemilia Lanyer's \u003ci\u003eSalve Deus Rex Judaeoreum\u003c\/i\u003e, Hutchinson's \u003ci\u003eOrder and Disorder\u003c\/i\u003e, and Astell's \u003ci\u003eA Serious Proposal to the Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243005104472,"sku":"9781644531532","price":132.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781644531532.jpg?v=1778732163","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/familial-forms","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}