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Baroque pearls persist inside the shells of order and decorum in English neoclassical literature.. Canfield tries to ferret out the meanings of these disruptions, to read out the implications of their ambiguities, of their metaphorics, rhetorics, and misplacements, of their lucid play.

This is the first new full-scale anthology of Restoration and eighteenth-century drama in over sixty years. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses especially on Restoration drama proper (1660-1688) and Revolution drama (1689-1714), with a smaller selection of plays from the early Georgian period (1715-1737) and a glimpse at the later Georgian period's "laughing comedy" (1770s and 80s).

This comprehensive and inclusive anthology is the best of its kind.

This collection of essays on the rhetorics of order in English neoclassical literature includes Rose A. Zimbardo's investigation of generic slippage between drama and novel in works by Dryden and Behn, Maynard Mack's analysis of Pope's enduring rhetorics of presentation, and Patricia Meyer Spacks's examination of the heroines of Clarissa and the Italian.

J. Douglas Canfield argues that English literature of the feudal epoch placed this master trope of word as bond at the center of conflict. The trope does not passively reflect social reality, rather, it helps to define, to constitute the society and its values.

Twentieth-century authors and filmmakers have created a pantheon of mavericks-some macho, others angst-ridden-who often cross a metaphorical boundary among the literal ones of Anglo, Native American, and Hispanic cultures. Douglas Canfield examines the concept of borders, defining them as the space between states and cultures and ideologies, and focuses on these border crossings as a key feature of novels and films about the region. Canfield b...

To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes. The theater of this period embodied the values, meanings, and power relations of Restoration England. In Heroes and States, Douglas Canfield argues that drama not only represents but actually helps constitute the value and belief systems of an en...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession. The hybrid nature of these plays has l...

Doug Canfield's poems are the careful expressions of a man who has seen deeply into the world and who has understood what he has seen. I suppose this is the essential definition of the poet, and Doug Canfield was definitively a poet. He has given us the great gift of his vision and his humanity. His poems are a pleasure, a revelation, and an honor to read. Scott Momaday, novelist and poet, Pulitzer Prize winner for House Made Of Dawn. In Viole...

From Milton and the Court Wits to Dryden and the Scriblerians, authors deploy baroque moments of disruption, grotesquerie, excrescence, extravagance, exuberance, encryption_even as they turn to more supposedly classical, restrained, and rational forms. Canfield tries to ferret out the meanings of these disruptions.