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Political voice of Aphra Behn
Hoblová, Kristýna ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Clark, Colin Steele (referee)
The Political Voice of Aphra Behn Kristýna Hoblová, 2013 Abstract This work of literary history analyses the relationship between the fiction of Aphra Behn and the developing partisan politics of the Restoration period, focusing on Behn's use of set tropes of political rhetoric of both Whig and Tory supporters and on the influence of her feminist views on her political writing. It rests on the assumption that in the Restoration period the public and private spheres were still closely interlinked and thus almost any kind of literature engaged in politics, ranging from formal treatises to drama and amatory fiction. The thesis opens with a chapter setting up the historical background and the literary context of the reign of Charles II and James II, which offers a brief overview of the main rhetorical strategies of all kinds of political writing - the household analogy of formal treatises, the Cavalier libertine culture of the Restoration comedy, the relationship between romance and allegory, Tory feminism developed by Margaret Cavendish and methods of political rhetoric employed by John Dryden, the author closest to Behn in political and religious adherence. The third chapter uses this context to sum up Behn's approach to politics in the whole of her work, employing some of her pindarics to prove her...
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Political voice of Aphra Behn
Hoblová, Kristýna ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Clark, Colin Steele (referee)
The Political Voice of Aphra Behn Kristýna Hoblová, 2013 Abstract This work of literary history analyses the relationship between the fiction of Aphra Behn and the developing partisan politics of the Restoration period, focusing on Behn's use of set tropes of political rhetoric of both Whig and Tory supporters and on the influence of her feminist views on her political writing. It rests on the assumption that in the Restoration period the public and private spheres were still closely interlinked and thus almost any kind of literature engaged in politics, ranging from formal treatises to drama and amatory fiction. The thesis opens with a chapter setting up the historical background and the literary context of the reign of Charles II and James II, which offers a brief overview of the main rhetorical strategies of all kinds of political writing - the household analogy of formal treatises, the Cavalier libertine culture of the Restoration comedy, the relationship between romance and allegory, Tory feminism developed by Margaret Cavendish and methods of political rhetoric employed by John Dryden, the author closest to Behn in political and religious adherence. The third chapter uses this context to sum up Behn's approach to politics in the whole of her work, employing some of her pindarics to prove her...
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