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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... court culture . One point this book tries to empha- size is that what has been referred to as the Augustan era of English poetry , initiated in 1660 and brought to perfection with Dryden's Aeneid ( 1697 ) , was a reactive phenomenon ...
... court culture . One point this book tries to empha- size is that what has been referred to as the Augustan era of English poetry , initiated in 1660 and brought to perfection with Dryden's Aeneid ( 1697 ) , was a reactive phenomenon ...
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... courts could lay 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 ...
... courts could lay 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 ...
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... court.38 With the collapse of censorship in the 1640s , the political debates that were at first conducted obliquely through the dramatization and publication of the classics became much more urgent and direct . This period arguably saw ...
... court.38 With the collapse of censorship in the 1640s , the political debates that were at first conducted obliquely through the dramatization and publication of the classics became much more urgent and direct . This period arguably saw ...
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... court poetry and republicanism by giving a prominent role in this story to Waller , a figure who occupied an awkward position at their margins and thus incurred the wrath of both sides . If Writing the English Republic concentrates on ...
... court poetry and republicanism by giving a prominent role in this story to Waller , a figure who occupied an awkward position at their margins and thus incurred the wrath of both sides . If Writing the English Republic concentrates on ...
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... court - centred readings : see David Norbrook , ' The Emperor's New Body ? Richard II , Ernst Kantorowicz , and the Politics of Shakespeare Criticism ' , Textual Practice 10 ( 1996 ) , 329–57 . 50 Zera S. Fink , The Classical ...
... court - centred readings : see David Norbrook , ' The Emperor's New Body ? Richard II , Ernst Kantorowicz , and the Politics of Shakespeare Criticism ' , Textual Practice 10 ( 1996 ) , 329–57 . 50 Zera S. Fink , The Classical ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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