Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660This magisterial new history of seventeenth-century republican political culture sets key texts by Marvell and Milton in a richly detailed context, showing how writers re-imagined English political and literary culture without kingship. The book draws on extensive archival research, bringing to light exciting and neglected manuscript and printed sources. Offering a bold new narrative of the whole period, and a timely reminder that England has a republican as well as royalist heritage, it will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars. |
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| Title | Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 Volume 218 of Novartis Foundation symposium |
| Author | David Norbrook |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0521785693, 9780521785693 |
| Length | 509 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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