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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... Early modern , 1500-1700 - History and criticism . 2. Great Britain - History - Civil War , 1642-1649 - Literature and the war . 3. Rhetoric - Political aspects - Great Britain - History - 17th century . 4. Politics and literature ...
... Early modern , 1500-1700 - History and criticism . 2. Great Britain - History - Civil War , 1642-1649 - Literature and the war . 3. Rhetoric - Political aspects - Great Britain - History - 17th century . 4. Politics and literature ...
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... Early parts of the book were rehearsed in classes on ' Literature and the English Revolution ' with my colleague Nigel Smith , to whose book on the 1640s and 1650s the present study is in so many ways complementary , and who has ...
... Early parts of the book were rehearsed in classes on ' Literature and the English Revolution ' with my colleague Nigel Smith , to whose book on the 1640s and 1650s the present study is in so many ways complementary , and who has ...
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... Early Stuart England ( Macmillan , 1994 ) , pp . 45-66 . Chapter 3 : ' Milton's Areopagitica , Censorship , and the Early Modern Public Sphere ' , in Richard Burt ( ed . ) , The Administration of Aesthetics : Censorship , Political ...
... Early Stuart England ( Macmillan , 1994 ) , pp . 45-66 . Chapter 3 : ' Milton's Areopagitica , Censorship , and the Early Modern Public Sphere ' , in Richard Burt ( ed . ) , The Administration of Aesthetics : Censorship , Political ...
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... early Stuart England . On that analysis , republicanism was largely a response to , rather than the cause of , the execution of Charles I ; before the 1640s republicanism was effectively unthinkable.16 Some of the most exciting and ...
... early Stuart England . On that analysis , republicanism was largely a response to , rather than the cause of , the execution of Charles I ; before the 1640s republicanism was effectively unthinkable.16 Some of the most exciting and ...
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... early development of English republicanism not through the texts of ' high ' political theory but through literary culture , and more specifically through poetry . Contemporary republican poets like Tony Harrison and Tom Paulin have had ...
... early development of English republicanism not through the texts of ' high ' political theory but through literary culture , and more specifically through poetry . Contemporary republican poets like Tony Harrison and Tom Paulin have had ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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