The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century caused anunprecedented number of people to emigrate voluntarily or not from England.Among these... » 

The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century caused anunprecedented number of people to emigrate voluntarily or not from England.Among these exiles were some of the most important authors in the AngloAmerican canon. Christopher DAddario explores how early modern authors thoughtand wrote about the experience of exile in relation both to their lost homelandand to the new communities they created for themselves abroad. He analyses thewritings of firstgeneration New England Puritans the Royalists in Franceduring the English Civil War and the interior exiles of John Milton and JohnDryden. DAddario explores the nature of artistic creation from the religiousand political margins of early modern England and in doing so providesdetailed insight into the psychological and material pressures of displacementand a much overdue study of the importance of exile to the development of earlymodern literature. «