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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... figures discussed in this book - Fisher , Hall , Marten , May , Wither - have received hardly any attention in print . Their memory has been kept at bay by a cordon sanitaire of defensive ridicule . Though none of them equals Milton as ...
... figures discussed in this book - Fisher , Hall , Marten , May , Wither - have received hardly any attention in print . Their memory has been kept at bay by a cordon sanitaire of defensive ridicule . Though none of them equals Milton as ...
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... figure in the study of repub- lican thought , but the fact that he wrote poetry , and wrote prose with a keen eye to poetic allusion , has received hardly any attention . The history of polit- ical thought has made great strides in ...
... figure in the study of repub- lican thought , but the fact that he wrote poetry , and wrote prose with a keen eye to poetic allusion , has received hardly any attention . The history of polit- ical thought has made great strides in ...
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... ( figure 10 below ) : the ghosts of past writers could drink the blood of the present . Nor was this passion confined to a narrow elite . Classical histories as well as studies of foreign republican constitutions were widely published in ...
... ( figure 10 below ) : the ghosts of past writers could drink the blood of the present . Nor was this passion confined to a narrow elite . Classical histories as well as studies of foreign republican constitutions were widely published in ...
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... figure who occupied an awkward position at their margins and thus incurred the wrath of both sides . If Writing the English Republic concentrates on writers from the elite , it is not to claim that the classics were the only source of ...
... figure who occupied an awkward position at their margins and thus incurred the wrath of both sides . If Writing the English Republic concentrates on writers from the elite , it is not to claim that the classics were the only source of ...
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... figures in this study were not republicans in a strict sense ; but I shall try to show in chapter 8 that their representation of Cromwell retained something of the imaginative appeal of more radical republicanism . In religious terms ...
... figures in this study were not republicans in a strict sense ; but I shall try to show in chapter 8 that their representation of Cromwell retained something of the imaginative appeal of more radical republicanism . In religious terms ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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