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The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Автор: James William Johnson

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rocheste...

Информация за книгата

Автор

James William Johnson

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2009

страници

478

EAN

9781580463362

ISBN

1580463363

Enbook ID

04822751

Издател

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Теглоt

688

Размери

163 x 229 x 26

Пълно описание

Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, he shocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiring patriot. An Emeritus professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.

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