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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... give meaning to their lives . George Wither wrote shortly after the king's execution that he had been strug- gling consistently against the same enemies for thirty - six years . He was aware that he had markedly changed the terms in ...
... give meaning to their lives . George Wither wrote shortly after the king's execution that he had been strug- gling consistently against the same enemies for thirty - six years . He was aware that he had markedly changed the terms in ...
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... give a vivid sense of living in a time of sudden acceleration , when changes he might have hoped to see in the distant future suddenly seemed plausible ; but they also show his own sense of living ahead of his time , of planning ahead ...
... give a vivid sense of living in a time of sudden acceleration , when changes he might have hoped to see in the distant future suddenly seemed plausible ; but they also show his own sense of living ahead of his time , of planning ahead ...
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... gives its title to Richard Ollard's This War Without an Enemy : A History of the English Civil Wars ( 1976 ) . 4 Waller believed that the English excelled all other nations , and notably the French , in writing tragedy , and there may ...
... gives its title to Richard Ollard's This War Without an Enemy : A History of the English Civil Wars ( 1976 ) . 4 Waller believed that the English excelled all other nations , and notably the French , in writing tragedy , and there may ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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