4. Literature as Civil War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface to the Revised Edition V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. List of Abbreviations IX
6. “Seeking the Noise in the Depth of Silence”: A Naval Prelude with Spectators, 1665 1
7. 1. Historicising Literary Culture: Communication, Contingency, Contexture 13
8. 2. Literary Cabinets of Wonder: The ‘Paper Kingdomes’ of Robert Burton and Sir Thomas Browne 28
9. 3. Writing, Reading, Seeing: Visuality and Contingency in the Literary Epistemology of Neoclassicism 70
10. 4. Literature as Civil War 117
11. 5. Private Selves and Public Lives: Neoclassical Perspectives 179
12. The Augustan Angle: Civilised Contingency and Normative Discourse 214
13. Bibliography 225
14. Index 249