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Description Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices that captured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Anne Cotterill turns current sensitivity toward the silenced voice to argue that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced to be competitive yet circumspect as they made their voices heard. Product Description Review Cotterill has chosen her texts carefully. (Times Literary Supplement) an impressive volume, deserving the attention of all who are concerned with English literature from Donne to Swift. (Modern Law Review) Publisher: OUP Oxford (19 February 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0199261172 ISBN-13: 978-0199261178    Sharing Widget |