Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660

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Cambridge University Press, 1999 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 509 pages
This 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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IV
25
V
65
VI
95
VII
142
VIII
194
IX
245
X
301
XI
328
XII
381
XIII
435
XIV
498
XV
499
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