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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... constitutional reform as a significant agenda , and Henry Marten's being honoured not only by a plaque in Oxford but by giving his name to a musical group . This book could not have been undertaken without the magnificent contributions ...
... constitutional reform as a significant agenda , and Henry Marten's being honoured not only by a plaque in Oxford but by giving his name to a musical group . This book could not have been undertaken without the magnificent contributions ...
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... constitutional or social conflicts , reaffirming instead the profound social and intellectual conservatism of early Stuart England . On that analysis , republicanism was largely a response to , rather than the cause of , the execution ...
... constitutional or social conflicts , reaffirming instead the profound social and intellectual conservatism of early Stuart England . On that analysis , republicanism was largely a response to , rather than the cause of , the execution ...
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Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook. constitutional programme provided by James Harrington , who for Pocock is the paradigmatic republican ; but the present study will try to show that repub- lican language was a more ...
Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook. constitutional programme provided by James Harrington , who for Pocock is the paradigmatic republican ; but the present study will try to show that repub- lican language was a more ...
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... constitutional debates of 1659 were more ' modern ' , less deferential towards the monarchy and the House of Lords , than those of the late - twenti- eth century . In dividing the book into sections of a few years , I have tried to ...
... constitutional debates of 1659 were more ' modern ' , less deferential towards the monarchy and the House of Lords , than those of the late - twenti- eth century . In dividing the book into sections of a few years , I have tried to ...
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... constitutional monarchy could represent the public interest better than an oligarchical republic . Republicans preferred 48 Francis Quarles , Observations Concerning Princes and States , Upon Peace and Warre ( 1642 ; E116.36 ) , p . 10 ...
... constitutional monarchy could represent the public interest better than an oligarchical republic . Republicans preferred 48 Francis Quarles , Observations Concerning Princes and States , Upon Peace and Warre ( 1642 ; E116.36 ) , p . 10 ...
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