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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... reform as a significant agenda , and Henry Marten's being honoured not only by a plaque in Oxford but by giving his name to a musical group . This book could not have been undertaken without the magnificent contributions of J. G. A. ...
... reform as a significant agenda , and Henry Marten's being honoured not only by a plaque in Oxford but by giving his name to a musical group . This book could not have been undertaken without the magnificent contributions of J. G. A. ...
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... reform group Charter 88 is making demands that were voiced by the Levellers in the 1640s . Where did this energetic republican culture come from ? Did it spring from nowhere , only to disappear from sight within a few years ? One might ...
... reform group Charter 88 is making demands that were voiced by the Levellers in the 1640s . Where did this energetic republican culture come from ? Did it spring from nowhere , only to disappear from sight within a few years ? One might ...
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... reform of government . A few leaders of the Commons in 1649 showed an almost mysti- cal conviction that once the king as the central symbol of private interest had been removed , the public interest would establish itself with little ...
... reform of government . A few leaders of the Commons in 1649 showed an almost mysti- cal conviction that once the king as the central symbol of private interest had been removed , the public interest would establish itself with little ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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