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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... republican history in snobbish laughter . That was the purpose with which the antiquarian Anthony Wood put many of them in print , often citing selectively the more sympathetic account in one of his main sources for the republicans ...
... republican history in snobbish laughter . That was the purpose with which the antiquarian Anthony Wood put many of them in print , often citing selectively the more sympathetic account in one of his main sources for the republicans ...
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... republican crackdown in 1660 was arguably out of all proportion to the political danger . It was fuelled by a minority of extreme reactionaries and often checked by more moderate counsels . But the fact that it was considered necessary ...
... republican crackdown in 1660 was arguably out of all proportion to the political danger . It was fuelled by a minority of extreme reactionaries and often checked by more moderate counsels . But the fact that it was considered necessary ...
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... republican culture come from ? Did it spring from nowhere , only to disappear from sight within a few years ? One might draw that conclusion from much recent historiography . A ' revisionist ' movement has contested liberal and Marxist ...
... republican culture come from ? Did it spring from nowhere , only to disappear from sight within a few years ? One might draw that conclusion from much recent historiography . A ' revisionist ' movement has contested liberal and Marxist ...
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... republicans of the mid - seven- teenth century.20 The republican John Streater was saying something rather similar on the eve of the Restoration in a retort to those who claimed that kingship was natural to England : the long ...
... republicans of the mid - seven- teenth century.20 The republican John Streater was saying something rather similar on the eve of the Restoration in a retort to those who claimed that kingship was natural to England : the long ...
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... republican Parliament had the double misfortune of being hated both by high - flying monarchists and by republicans for whom it had not gone nearly far enough . The Restoration of 1660 did not exactly mark the return of an ...
... republican Parliament had the double misfortune of being hated both by high - flying monarchists and by republicans for whom it had not gone nearly far enough . The Restoration of 1660 did not exactly mark the return of an ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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