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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... become a blank space , an ' Interregnum ' standing wholly outside the nation's temporal process . The derogatory label ' the Rump ' , attached to the republic's Parliament by its enemies in 1660 , has moved without any sense of strain ...
... become a blank space , an ' Interregnum ' standing wholly outside the nation's temporal process . The derogatory label ' the Rump ' , attached to the republic's Parliament by its enemies in 1660 , has moved without any sense of strain ...
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... become Downing Street . That particular part of England's royal heritage is now little remembered ; but it may stand for many lesser episodes where anti - republican violence was used to compensate for a past which itself lacked ...
... become Downing Street . That particular part of England's royal heritage is now little remembered ; but it may stand for many lesser episodes where anti - republican violence was used to compensate for a past which itself lacked ...
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... become embodied in academic institutions . Of the writers mentioned in Wordsworth's list , Milton and Marvell have become canonized as poets , and their prose , especially the latter's , has until relatively recently been placed in a ...
... become embodied in academic institutions . Of the writers mentioned in Wordsworth's list , Milton and Marvell have become canonized as poets , and their prose , especially the latter's , has until relatively recently been placed in a ...
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... become a programme . In two of the very last 37 Machiavelli to Vettori , 10 December 1513 , Familiar Letter no . 137 , in J. R. Hale ( ed . ) , The Literary Works of Machiavelli ( London , New York and Toronto , 1961 ) , p . 139 . 38 A ...
... become a programme . In two of the very last 37 Machiavelli to Vettori , 10 December 1513 , Familiar Letter no . 137 , in J. R. Hale ( ed . ) , The Literary Works of Machiavelli ( London , New York and Toronto , 1961 ) , p . 139 . 38 A ...
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... become effectively identified with the public interest . Though royalists used the emotive imagery of the body to stress the mystical marriage between king and kingdom , it was possible to stress the distinction instead.49 Independently ...
... become effectively identified with the public interest . Though royalists used the emotive imagery of the body to stress the mystical marriage between king and kingdom , it was possible to stress the distinction instead.49 Independently ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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