Aesthetics of Contingency

A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and Restoration literature. Rather than sparking a decisive break with the past, for many the seventeenth-century's civil wars opened onto a resolutely indeterminate future. -- .

Un studiu al modului in care literatura raspunde la conditiile de incertitudine politica, aceasta carte rescrie o mare parte din ceea ce credeam ca stim despre literatura de razboi civil si restaurare. In loc sa declanseze o ruptura decisiva cu trecutul, pentru multe razboaie civile din secolul al XVII-lea s-au deschis spre un viitor hotarat nedeterminat.