Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars
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Early modern Britain
English Civil Wars
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Genre Studies
John Milton
Polemic
Women's writing
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- ISBN 9781399524773
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars exposes writers’ reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history. In case studies of both familiar genres (country house poem, love lyric, epic) and understudied ones (emblem book, prose romance), it shows how the conservative language of "constancy" was used to justify opposing positions in the period’s most pressing controversies, including monarchical rule, ecclesiastical order, Catholicism, and England’s relationship to the wider world. At the same time, writers like John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Hester Pulter, Percy Herbert, and others establish the virtue’s importance to literary tradition, as they use "constancy" to retain, yet reimagine inherited formal structures and strategies. This book thus uses women’s writing and non-canonical texts to highlight cross-factional conservatism and international investment in what scholars often describe as the "English Revolution".
Rachel Dunn Zhang is an assistant professor of early modern literature at Emerson College. Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including Milton Studies, Ben Jonson Journal, Studies in Philology, Early Modern Women, The Seventeenth Century and Notes and Queries. An authority on Hester Pulter, Zhang is also a contributing editor and reviewer for The Pulter Project.
