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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... common cause ' , are vague terms ; yet they are also in effect translations of ' res publica ' , in the broader Latin sense that was rendered in English as ' common weal ' . That elusive word ' res ' could refer to a specific ...
... common cause ' , are vague terms ; yet they are also in effect translations of ' res publica ' , in the broader Latin sense that was rendered in English as ' common weal ' . That elusive word ' res ' could refer to a specific ...
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... common - law tradition which defined the king as possessing both a natural body and a ' body politic ' which would become effectively identified with the public interest . Though royalists used the emotive imagery of the body to stress ...
... common - law tradition which defined the king as possessing both a natural body and a ' body politic ' which would become effectively identified with the public interest . Though royalists used the emotive imagery of the body to stress ...
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... common factors . They were ready to criticize customary hierarchies in the state and the church , to see the state as a political artifact rather than a mystical body handed down in a virtually natural order . They could unite in seeing ...
... common factors . They were ready to criticize customary hierarchies in the state and the church , to see the state as a political artifact rather than a mystical body handed down in a virtually natural order . They could unite in seeing ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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