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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... May , 1627 , sig . Q2r . By permission of the British Library ( 1068.1.6 ) 2. Title - page to Thomas May ( trans . ) , Lucan's Pharsalia . By permission of the British Library ( 1068.1.6 . ) page 46 47 3. Title - page to Thucydides ...
... May , 1627 , sig . Q2r . By permission of the British Library ( 1068.1.6 ) 2. Title - page to Thomas May ( trans . ) , Lucan's Pharsalia . By permission of the British Library ( 1068.1.6 . ) page 46 47 3. Title - page to Thucydides ...
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... may have slily enjoyed this oblique restaging of old controversies . He did not push his assault far , however – perhaps in part because he realized that the strongly ideological nature of his own royalism was as likely to stir up as to ...
... may have slily enjoyed this oblique restaging of old controversies . He did not push his assault far , however – perhaps in part because he realized that the strongly ideological nature of his own royalism was as likely to stir up as to ...
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... May's Death ' declares that the poet's body will be expelled from Westminster Abbey ; this prophecy was fulfilled in ... may stand for many lesser episodes where anti - republican violence was used to compensate for a past which itself ...
... May's Death ' declares that the poet's body will be expelled from Westminster Abbey ; this prophecy was fulfilled in ... may stand for many lesser episodes where anti - republican violence was used to compensate for a past which itself ...
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... May's continuation of Lucan ( figure 10 below ) : the ghosts of past writers could drink the blood of the present ... may not have had the practical option of being a programme rather than a language ; but a distinctively republican ...
... May's continuation of Lucan ( figure 10 below ) : the ghosts of past writers could drink the blood of the present ... may not have had the practical option of being a programme rather than a language ; but a distinctively republican ...
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... May's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia with Milton's Paradise Lost . The latter work is often inter- preted as the product of the author's despair at the collapse of republican hopes . In trying to show close structural parallels ...
... May's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia with Milton's Paradise Lost . The latter work is often inter- preted as the product of the author's despair at the collapse of republican hopes . In trying to show close structural parallels ...
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