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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... effects on English literary history and , arguably , on wider aspects of political iden- tity . In the short term , the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion can be seen as an enlightened piece of legislation . Twenty years of bitter contention ...
... effects on English literary history and , arguably , on wider aspects of political iden- tity . In the short term , the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion can be seen as an enlightened piece of legislation . Twenty years of bitter contention ...
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... effect then , and quickly became an object of distant nos- talgia : such a fleeting phenomenon hardly disturbs a general model of English culture as overwhelmingly monarchist . This analysis of the dominance of conservative monarchism ...
... effect then , and quickly became an object of distant nos- talgia : such a fleeting phenomenon hardly disturbs a general model of English culture as overwhelmingly monarchist . This analysis of the dominance of conservative monarchism ...
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... effect of overemphasizing the influ- ence of monarchy from a different direction . ' Anti - humanist ' theorists have presented language and ideology as all - pervasive and ultimately unconscious structuring influences on the individual ...
... effect of overemphasizing the influ- ence of monarchy from a different direction . ' Anti - humanist ' theorists have presented language and ideology as all - pervasive and ultimately unconscious structuring influences on the individual ...
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... 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 institution , the state , or a cause , an ideal , and ' res ...
... 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 institution , the state , or a cause , an ideal , and ' res ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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