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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... earlier work in a field which has not always seen linear progress . Some more specific thanks remain . Sandra Sherman stimulated a rethink- ing of a lot more than Milton . Margaret Williamson helped me to think about the wider aims of ...
... earlier work in a field which has not always seen linear progress . Some more specific thanks remain . Sandra Sherman stimulated a rethink- ing of a lot more than Milton . Margaret Williamson helped me to think about the wider aims of ...
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... earlier , indeed , Downing had been a faith- ful servant of the Protectorate , a colleague of Andrew Marvell , and had been vigorously harassing not republican but royalist exiles in the Netherlands . A poem for his marriage had been ...
... earlier , indeed , Downing had been a faith- ful servant of the Protectorate , a colleague of Andrew Marvell , and had been vigorously harassing not republican but royalist exiles in the Netherlands . A poem for his marriage had been ...
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... earlier works . Readers who already know that this is impossible are of course at liberty to tear the book in two and begin with chapter 5 , but I hope that they will start from chapter 1. Not all the writers I focus on were consistent ...
... earlier works . Readers who already know that this is impossible are of course at liberty to tear the book in two and begin with chapter 5 , but I hope that they will start from chapter 1. Not all the writers I focus on were consistent ...
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... earlier views . Support for a distinction between the king's person and the public interest could be found in the common - law tradition which defined the king as possessing both a natural body and a ' body politic ' which would become ...
... earlier views . Support for a distinction between the king's person and the public interest could be found in the common - law tradition which defined the king as possessing both a natural body and a ' body politic ' which would become ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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