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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... possible , and to all the parti- cipants for such challenging debate . On various visits to the United States , I have also benefited from using the libraries of the University of Chicago , Columbia University , Harvard University , the ...
... possible , and to all the parti- cipants for such challenging debate . On various visits to the United States , I have also benefited from using the libraries of the University of Chicago , Columbia University , Harvard University , the ...
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... possible , Tom Paulin , Joad Raymond , John Safford and Erica Sheen . To my wife , Sharon Achinstein , I am grateful , amongst very many things , for struggling with an unconscionable number of ' final ' drafts . The three readers for ...
... possible , Tom Paulin , Joad Raymond , John Safford and Erica Sheen . To my wife , Sharon Achinstein , I am grateful , amongst very many things , for struggling with an unconscionable number of ' final ' drafts . The three readers for ...
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... possible to understand texts in their historical moment . Where practicable , citations follow the original spelling , though the forms of transliteration vary slightly in drawing on such a range of texts and edi- tions . Except in some ...
... possible to understand texts in their historical moment . Where practicable , citations follow the original spelling , though the forms of transliteration vary slightly in drawing on such a range of texts and edi- tions . Except in some ...
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... possible limita- tions , of speech - act theory.32 While it has spawned a large , and highly techni- cal , theoretical literature , its value as a heuristic device in cultural history emerges best in practice - indeed it is in some ways ...
... possible limita- tions , of speech - act theory.32 While it has spawned a large , and highly techni- cal , theoretical literature , its value as a heuristic device in cultural history emerges best in practice - indeed it is in some ways ...
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... possible to construct a coherent narra- tive of the emergence of republican prose and poetry . Rather than hitting some invisible barrier at the year 1649 , with a completely different world- view suddenly emerging , it is possible to ...
... possible to construct a coherent narra- tive of the emergence of republican prose and poetry . Rather than hitting some invisible barrier at the year 1649 , with a completely different world- view suddenly emerging , it is possible to ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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