The politics of mirth

Description:

Leah Marcus's The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes is a fascinating study of why James and Charles promoted some types of rural sport and festival and of how certain literary texts participated in promoting or critiquing royal policy. . . . Marcus provocatively links texts not often studied in conjunction with one another, and she provides strong and detailed readings of those texts. -- Publsiher's website.

subjects: Politics and government,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs in literature,  English literature,  Literature and society,  History and criticism,  Festivals,  Holidays in literature,  History,  English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700,  Fasts and feasts

Places: England,  Great Britain

Times: 17th century,  Early modern, 1500-1700,  1603-1649