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The Restoration is an unusual historical period, as its literature is bounded by a specific political event: the restoration of the Stuart monarchy. It is unusual in another way, as well, for it is a time when the influence of that king's presence and personality permeated literary society to such an extent that, almost uniquely, literature ...
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Subject strengths include New England authors (the Parkman Dexter Howe Collection of literature and related cultural/historical topics for the 17th–19th centuries); classical literature in early printed editions; Restoration literature; 18th century poetry, prose and drama; Irish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; and selected 20th century British and American poetry and fiction.
In general, the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that centre on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature that includes extremes, for it encompasses both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester 's Sodom , the high-spirited sexual comedy of The Country Wife and the moral ...
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English Literature of the late Seventeenth Century, 1969; Daniel Defoe: A Critical Study, 1971; The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, 1975 (editor) Restoration Tragedies, 1977; The Restoration Newspaper and its Development, 1986; Restoration Literature 1660-1700: Dryden, Bunyan, and Pepys, 1990 (The Oxford History of English Literature series)
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The term Restoration is also used to describe the period of several years after, in which a new political settlement was established. [1] It is very often used to cover the whole reign of Charles II (1660–1685) and often the brief reign of his younger brother James II (1685–1688). [ 2 ]