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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... Protectorate , a colleague of Andrew Marvell , and had been vigorously harassing not republican but royalist exiles in the Netherlands . A poem for his marriage had been written by Payne Fisher , who had been effectively Cromwell's poet ...
... Protectorate , a colleague of Andrew Marvell , and had been vigorously harassing not republican but royalist exiles in the Netherlands . A poem for his marriage had been written by Payne Fisher , who had been effectively Cromwell's poet ...
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... Protectorate , England had experimented with a compromise form of government . The republican Parliament had the double misfortune of being hated both by high - flying monarchists and by republicans for whom it had not gone nearly far ...
... Protectorate , England had experimented with a compromise form of government . The republican Parliament had the double misfortune of being hated both by high - flying monarchists and by republicans for whom it had not gone nearly far ...
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... Protectorate . The book's framing chapters juxtapose 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 ...
... Protectorate . The book's framing chapters juxtapose 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 ...
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... Protectorate was his expansionist foreign policy in the West Indies . As for the question of communication for women in a republican order , it is certainly helpful to avoid a simple narrative in which political pro- gressivism runs on ...
... Protectorate was his expansionist foreign policy in the West Indies . As for the question of communication for women in a republican order , it is certainly helpful to avoid a simple narrative in which political pro- gressivism runs on ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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