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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... period , and a timely reminder that England has a republican as well as royalist heritage , Writing the English Republic will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars . David Norbrook's publications include ...
... period , and a timely reminder that England has a republican as well as royalist heritage , Writing the English Republic will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars . David Norbrook's publications include ...
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... period from 1649 to 1660 has become a blank space , an ' Interregnum ' standing wholly outside the nation's temporal process . The derogatory label ' the Rump ' , attached to the republic's Parliament by its enemies in 1660 , has moved ...
... period from 1649 to 1660 has become a blank space , an ' Interregnum ' standing wholly outside the nation's temporal process . The derogatory label ' the Rump ' , attached to the republic's Parliament by its enemies in 1660 , has moved ...
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... periods , there is no evidence for this story . " Thomas May is best known from Marvell's satire , which presents the debauched poet's republicanism as a mask for frustrated ambition . 3 Sean Kelsey , Inventing a Republic : The ...
... periods , there is no evidence for this story . " Thomas May is best known from Marvell's satire , which presents the debauched poet's republicanism as a mask for frustrated ambition . 3 Sean Kelsey , Inventing a Republic : The ...
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... period of renewed Tory alarm over a renewal of the republican spirit , when some of Milton's political works were publicly burned in Oxford . ' The more violent the erasure , however , the more it can be seen that there was something to ...
... period of renewed Tory alarm over a renewal of the republican spirit , when some of Milton's political works were publicly burned in Oxford . ' The more violent the erasure , however , the more it can be seen that there was something to ...
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... period remains extremely shadowy in comparison with the atten- tion that has been paid to court culture . One point this book tries to empha- size is that what has been referred to as the Augustan era of English poetry , initiated in ...
... period remains extremely shadowy in comparison with the atten- tion that has been paid to court culture . One point this book tries to empha- size is that what has been referred to as the Augustan era of English poetry , initiated in ...
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