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050 00 $aPR2308.Z5$bR39 1994
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100 1 $aRaylor, Timothy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92026909
245 10 $aCavaliers, clubs, and literary culture :$bSir John Mennes, James Smith, and the Order of the Fancy /$cTimothy Raylor.
260 $aNewark :$bUniversity of Delaware Press ;$aLondon :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9409
300 $a335 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 295-318) and index.
505 0 $aPt. 1. Early Lives, 1599-1639. 1. John Mennes: "Markt for the True-wit of a Million" 2. James Smith: "A man much given to excessive drinking" -- Pt. 2. The Order of the Fancy. 3. Precursors. 4. Membership. 5. Character -- Pt. 3. Burlesque and Mock-Poetry. 6. Critical Contexts. 7. Sources. 8. John Mennes and the Burlesque Verse Epistle. 9. James Smith and the Mock-Poem -- Pt. 4. Later Lives, 1640-1671. 10. War with Scotland. 11. Civil War. 12. Drollery in Defeat. 13. Restoration? -- Appendix 1. Mennes and Smith: The Canon -- Appendix 2. Mennes and Smith: Unpublished Poems.
520 $aCavaliers, Clubs, and Literary Culture is centered around the lives and poetry of Sir John Mennes (a naval officer) and his friend James Smith (a debauched cleric) in Stuart and Interregnum England. It explores the largely uncharted territory between the official culture of the court and the often oppositional culture of the city by examining the clubs of city wits, stage actors, and would-be courtiers that flourished during the early and middle years of the seventeenth century.
520 8 $aEmploying a wealth of untapped manuscript and print sources, Timothy Raylor traces the careers of two struggling poets during the 1630s and sketches their milieu. Mennes's and Smith's involvement with important theatrical and literary figures (including Philip Massinger, Robert Herrick, Sir William Davenant, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Sir John Suckling) is established. The membership, activities, and character of their dissolute fraternity, the Order of the Fancy, are discussed for the first time.
520 8 $aRaylor shows that the burlesques and travesties that are generally seen as a Restoration phenomenon had their origins in this earlier milieu. Furthermore, the politicization of this primarily frolicsome mode is traced to a paper scuffle of the 1630s - a disagreement over a controversial attempt by a translator of Puritan sympathies to render Ovid's Heroides into a bourgeois idiom.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aThe outbreak of war in the British Isles ended the social life of fraternities like the Order of the Fancy. But throughout the war and after the royalist defeat there were recurrent attempts to preserve the ethos of the clubs through the sending of burlesque verse epistles. Royalist exiles even attempted to hold club-like meetings on the Continent.
520 8 $aDuring the Interregnum Mennes and Smith were actively involved in royalist subversion, and their verse was first published at this time as part of a royalist propaganda effort.
520 8 $aThe Restoration saw both men handsomely rewarded, and their verse provided the model for a new generation of wits. But for Mennes and Smith, as for many old royalists, the new regime marked the end rather than the restoration of an era.
520 8 $aDespite superficial continuities, a sense of fundamental difference emerges, in the conflicts in the Restoration Navy Office between Pepys, the rising civil servant, and Mennes, the aging dilettante, and in the increasingly cynical and skeptical tone of the Restoration burlesques, which modeled themselves on the verse of Mennes and Smith.
520 8 $aThis book offers a new reading of cavalier culture, drawing attention to the continuities (and discontinuities) between Caroline and Restoration culture, and sheds new light upon the condition of the production and circulation of poetry in seventeenth-century England.
600 10 $aMennes, John,$cSir,$d1599-1671.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83074318
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102956
651 0 $aLondon (England)$xSocial life and customs$y17th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078223
650 0 $aPoets, English$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109408
650 0 $aHumorous poetry, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aRoyalists$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010111493
650 0 $aClubs$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aOrder of the Fancy (Group of writers)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93007063
600 10 $aSmith, James,$d1605-1667.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84180325
650 0 $aBurlesque (Literature)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018111
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR2308.Z5$iR39 1994