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In the sixteenth – beginning of the seventeenth centuries, during the Golden age in British literature, authoritarian power inevitably clashed with writers as freethinking individuals. Political turbulence in the seventeenth century as a result of the long struggle between the kings and parliament, splits the society and writers (puritans against aristocrats). Since the end of the seventeenth century a constitutional monarchy was firmly established in the country, political life concentrated in the parliament, literature got a special niche. Since puritan principles prevailed in the life of society, authorities began to worry about the violations of the moral norms of the “British civilization” (the case of D.H. Lawrence). A stable national cultural matrix formed by the second half of the twentieth century: British establishment and public mentality are characterized by a specific, capacious ability to accept, assimilate, neutralize oppositional ideas, to include them in the commonly accepted systems of thought keeping a slight sense of opposition, so that the bottle of dissidence of any form didn’t explode while corked. Thus, extremes in contemporary literature find a way out and there are no evident conflicts
absolutism and a writer; a writer under a constitutional monarchy; C. Marlowe; B. Jonson; J. Milton, A. Marvell; J. Bunyan; J. Swift; D.H. Lawrence; contemporary matrix of power attitude to writers; Ian McEwan
Download textFor citing: Krasavchenko T.N. (2022). Writer and power: British matrix (from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century). Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 3(51): Power of literature – writer and authorities, pp. 56-79. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2022.03.04