Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts
    Unavailable
    Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts
    Unavailable
    Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts
    Ebook353 pages13 hours

    Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts

    By Phillip Harth

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems Absalom and Achitophel and The Medall, and the dramatic works The Duke of Guise and Albion and Albanius, have commonly been considered in relation to such public events as the Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Tory Reaction, but that approach does not explain the noticeable differences among these works or the specific purposes for which they were written. Harth argues that the immediate contexts of these works were not the historical events themselves but a constantly developing series of propaganda offensives, both Tory and Whig, designed to influence public opinion toward fluctuating conditions.

    Pen for a Party traces the halting process by which the government of Charles II developed propaganda as an effective instrument for gradually winning the public's acquiescence in its divisive policies. It likewise shows how Dryden fashioned his own works to meet the needs of this propaganda campaign in each of its successive phases.

    Originally published in 1993.

    The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateMar 8, 2015
    ISBN9781400872787
    Unavailable
    Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts

    Related to Pen for a Party

    Titles in the series (6)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Literary Criticism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Right Thinking

      Jul 31, 2022

      Right Thinking
      3 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Jan 22, 2019

      Reviews
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Danger Of Rewriting History

      Nov 26, 2020

      The Danger Of Rewriting History
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Vacuum At the Center

      Mar 5, 2018

      A Vacuum At the Center
      17 min read

    • Article

      The Conspirasphere

      Nov 3, 2022

      The island of Bornholm is the site of many mysteries. Excavations have found evidence of people inhabiting the place since very ancient times, and suggested that there was some ritual significance associated with it. The Templars are said to have had

      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Sep 1, 2020

      Letters
      5 min read

    • Article

      Time To Sober Up

      Jan 19, 2022

      IT was a dark, cold night and the lights in No 10 were blazing. The nation was in crisis and its civil servants were still at their desks. Only one set of windows was different: no bright lights, only a diffused glow—the Prime Minister’s Political Of

      2 min read

    • Article

      Unintended Consequences

      May 29, 2022

      Unintended Consequences
      10 min read

    • Article

      Our Library

      Sep 25, 2023

      His father's boot Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned towards the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blow, properly placed, could kill

      3 min read

    • Article

      Losing Faith

      Dec 25, 2023

      Losing Faith
      5 min read

    • Article

      2020 The Historians’ Verdict

      Nov 26, 2020

      Matt Elton: The past year has been extraordinary. Which news stories have stood out for you as historians? Michael Wood: There’s an apocryphal Chinese saying – “may you live in interesting times” – and it’s been a fascinating year if you’re intereste

      14 min read

    • Article

      Does Our Society Still Support the Right to Be Wrong?

      Sep 27, 2017

      The whole idea of a free society is based on a very simple idea that is very hard to live by: People have the right to be wrong. This idea has ancient roots, but it was always and everywhere a minority opinion, unpopular with both the masses and the

      3 min read

    • Article

      Speaking Freely

      Jul 14, 2019

      wins a wonderfully warm unisex Weka Woo hat and a Wyld Hug scarf, together valued at $160, from Naturally Wyld. Both use Pilana yarn that comes from organically and ethically farmed sheep. Pilana’s lightweight blend encapsulates the best attributes o

      9 min read

    Reviews for Pen for a Party

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words