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The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. This volume covers the period 1645-1714, and removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England. It invites readers to explore the continuities and the literary innovations occurring during six turbulent decades, as English readers and writers lived through unprecedented events including a King tried and executed by Parliament and another exiled, the creation of the national entity 'Great Britain', and an expanding English awareness of the New World.

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Throughout the book is authoritative and amusing: Ezell exhibits an uncommonly keen eye for the deft quotation (by no means the usual chestnuts) and the telling anecdote, many of which will surprise and delight veteran students of the period as well as undergraduate aspirants. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *

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Margaret J. M. Ezell is a Distinguished Professor of English and the John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. She received her degrees from Wellesley College and Cambridge University.

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