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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... monarchy and its attendant trappings , however , the mid - seventeenth century can make modern Britain look archaic . The reform group Charter 88 is making demands that were voiced by the Levellers in the 1640s . Where did this ...
... monarchy and its attendant trappings , however , the mid - seventeenth century can make modern Britain look archaic . The reform group Charter 88 is making demands that were voiced by the Levellers in the 1640s . Where did this ...
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... monarchy was probably the most despised government in English history . This book is very far from offering a representative cross - section of political opinion . Yet neither republican- ism nor monarchism was a single coherent entity ...
... monarchy was probably the most despised government in English history . This book is very far from offering a representative cross - section of political opinion . Yet neither republican- ism nor monarchism was a single coherent entity ...
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... monarchy the natural centre of the cosmos , with any other form of government effectively unimaginable . Recent new historicist ' and ' cultural materialist ' criticism has moved beyond these paradigms , offering a wider model of the ...
... monarchy the natural centre of the cosmos , with any other form of government effectively unimaginable . Recent new historicist ' and ' cultural materialist ' criticism has moved beyond these paradigms , offering a wider model of the ...
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... monarchy from a different direction . ' Anti - humanist ' theorists have presented language and ideology as all - pervasive and ultimately unconscious structuring influences on the individual ' subject ' . Such theories produce a ...
... monarchy from a different direction . ' Anti - humanist ' theorists have presented language and ideology as all - pervasive and ultimately unconscious structuring influences on the individual ' subject ' . Such theories produce a ...
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... monarchy in these particular terms . We can then better approach a culture like early modern England , where monarchy was being reinvented in response to recurrent challenges . The aim is to read poems not as timeless monuments or as ...
... monarchy in these particular terms . We can then better approach a culture like early modern England , where monarchy was being reinvented in response to recurrent challenges . The aim is to read poems not as timeless monuments or as ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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