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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 82
Page i
... interest to historians as well as literary scholars . David Norbrook's publications include Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance ( 1984 ) and The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse ( 1992 ) , as well as numerous articles and ...
... interest to historians as well as literary scholars . David Norbrook's publications include Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance ( 1984 ) and The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse ( 1992 ) , as well as numerous articles and ...
Page 14
... interest in blocking inter- pretation . To be able to use a language that was open to the divine purpose and that also spoke for the public interest , it was necessary to diminish the power of religious and civil monopolies of discourse ...
... interest in blocking inter- pretation . To be able to use a language that was open to the divine purpose and that also spoke for the public interest , it was necessary to diminish the power of religious and civil monopolies of discourse ...
Page 17
... 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 effectively identified with the public interest . Though royalists used the emotive ...
... 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 effectively identified with the public interest . Though royalists used the emotive ...
Page 21
... interest in recent years than her royal- ist contemporaries , and whose life history , beyond the light cast by her own writings , remains in the shadows of so much republican culture . Hutchinson would have played a larger part in this ...
... interest in recent years than her royal- ist contemporaries , and whose life history , beyond the light cast by her own writings , remains in the shadows of so much republican culture . Hutchinson would have played a larger part in this ...
Page 31
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Other editions - View all
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
Aeneid Andrew Marvell appeared Areopagitica attacks Augustan become Bodleian Caesar Cambridge cause celebrated Charles Charles's civil claim classical Commonwealth court courtly critics Cromwell Cromwell's Cromwellian culture death declared Defence discourse echoes edition elegy England English English Civil War epic George Wither Hall Hall's Harrington Hartlib Henry Marten Hobbes Horatian Ode imagery interest James Harrington John John Milton king king's kingship language liberty literary London Long Parliament Lucan Ludlow Machiavellian Marchamont Nedham Marten Marvell's May's Mercurius Politicus military Milton monarchist monarchy Nedham newsbook Oxford pamphlet Paradise Lost parallel Parliamentarian peace Pharsalia poem poem's poet poetic poetry political Pompey praise Presbyterians present Prince Protectorate public sphere Puritan radical readers reading reform regicide regime religious republic republic's republican Restoration rhetoric Roman Rome royal royalist Satan satire seems seen speech speech-act Stuart sublime Thomas tion traditional translation verse Virgil virtue Waller writing