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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... Resistance in Memory of Margot Heinemann ( Pluto Press , 1995 ) , pp . 19-32 . This book attempts to show the importance of setting individual writers in a larger process of agency , and can claim no X Acknowledgements I.
... Resistance in Memory of Margot Heinemann ( Pluto Press , 1995 ) , pp . 19-32 . This book attempts to show the importance of setting individual writers in a larger process of agency , and can claim no X Acknowledgements I.
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... claim no exception for itself . When it was begun , republicanism was wholly outside the mainstream of British politics . Writing the book has been stimulated by a process of change which has seen the re - emergence of constitutional ...
... claim no exception for itself . When it was begun , republicanism was wholly outside the mainstream of British politics . Writing the book has been stimulated by a process of change which has seen the re - emergence of constitutional ...
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... claim to an alliance with that art . Nevertheless , in many early modern poets we can find a chafing at the constraints of courtly panegyric . More's Utopia is torn between the practical demands of royal service and a playful revival of ...
... claim to an alliance with that art . Nevertheless , in many early modern poets we can find a chafing at the constraints of courtly panegyric . More's Utopia is torn between the practical demands of royal service and a playful revival of ...
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... position at their margins and thus incurred the wrath of both sides . If Writing the English Republic concentrates on writers from the elite , it is not to claim that the classics were the only source of 14 Introduction.
... position at their margins and thus incurred the wrath of both sides . If Writing the English Republic concentrates on writers from the elite , it is not to claim that the classics were the only source of 14 Introduction.
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Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook. to claim that the classics were the only source of ... claiming that poetry caused the English Revolution ; there have been decades of debate over the economic , social and ...
Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook. to claim that the classics were the only source of ... claiming that poetry caused the English Revolution ; there have been decades of debate over the economic , social and ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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