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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... and eclipse of republicanism , 1658–1660 [ 379 ] 10. Paradise Lost and English republicanism [ 433 ] Appendix : Henry Marten's poem to Cromwell [ 496 ] Index [ 497 ] Illustrations 1. Lucan's Pharsalia , trans . Thomas May , vii.
... and eclipse of republicanism , 1658–1660 [ 379 ] 10. Paradise Lost and English republicanism [ 433 ] Appendix : Henry Marten's poem to Cromwell [ 496 ] Index [ 497 ] Illustrations 1. Lucan's Pharsalia , trans . Thomas May , vii.
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... Pharsalia , trans . Thomas 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 ...
... Pharsalia , trans . Thomas 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 ...
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... Pharsalia , second edition , trans . Thomas May ( 1631 ; STC 16888 ) Brotherton Library , University of Leeds , Marten - Loder Papers The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell , ed . H. M. Margoliouth , third edition , revised by Pierre ...
... Pharsalia , second edition , trans . Thomas May ( 1631 ; STC 16888 ) Brotherton Library , University of Leeds , Marten - Loder Papers The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell , ed . H. M. Margoliouth , third edition , revised by Pierre ...
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... 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 between the two epics , I argue for ...
... 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 between the two epics , I argue for ...
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... Pharsalia In July 1642 , England stood on the brink of civil war . The king had withdrawn from London and there had been a long war of paper bullets ' , opposing polit- ical manifestoes , with each side accusing the other of subverting ...
... Pharsalia In July 1642 , England stood on the brink of civil war . The king had withdrawn from London and there had been a long war of paper bullets ' , opposing polit- ical manifestoes , with each side accusing the other of subverting ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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