Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Politics of Discourse: Introduction 1
5. 2 Texts as Events: Reflections on the History of Political Thought 21
6. 3 Politics of Discourses and the Rise of the Aesthetic in Seventeenth-Century England 35
7. 4 Lucy, Countess of Bedford: Images of a Jacobean Courtier and Patroness 52
8. 5 Macbeth and the Politics of Historiography 78
9. 6 Cavalier Critic? The Ethics and Politics of Thomas Carew' s Poetry 117
10. 7 Andrew Marvell, Oliver Cromwell, and the Horatian Ode 147
11. 8 Milton and the Histories 181
12. 9 The Politics of Paradise Lost 204
13. 10 Lines of Authority: Politics and Literary Culture in the Restoration 230
14. 11 Fables of Power 271
15. Notes 297
16. Contributors 351
17. Index 353