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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... Royal Highness , Oliver , 1659. By permission of the British Library ( 1093.C.51 ) 381 16. The Woefull Mirrour of Monarchy . By permission of the British Library ( 669f16.29 ) 460 viii Acknowledgements As this book goes to press , it ...
... Royal Highness , Oliver , 1659. By permission of the British Library ( 1093.C.51 ) 381 16. The Woefull Mirrour of Monarchy . By permission of the British Library ( 669f16.29 ) 460 viii Acknowledgements As this book goes to press , it ...
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... royal robes . Though Marten and Wither were involved in the fate of the jewels at different periods , there is no evidence for this story . " Thomas May is best known from Marvell's satire , which presents the debauched poet's ...
... royal robes . Though Marten and Wither were involved in the fate of the jewels at different periods , there is no evidence for this story . " Thomas May is best known from Marvell's satire , which presents the debauched poet's ...
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... royal heritage is now little remembered ; but it may stand for many lesser episodes where anti - republican violence was used to compensate for a past which itself lacked monarchist purity . Only three years earlier , indeed , Downing ...
... royal heritage is now little remembered ; but it may stand for many lesser episodes where anti - republican violence was used to compensate for a past which itself lacked monarchist purity . Only three years earlier , indeed , Downing ...
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... royal family , but the new generation of British republicans seems often to have little sense of occupying a space in cultural history that is not wholly new . Tom Nairn , in the most powerful modern critique of monarchism , has ...
... royal family , but the new generation of British republicans seems often to have little sense of occupying a space in cultural history that is not wholly new . Tom Nairn , in the most powerful modern critique of monarchism , has ...
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... royal ceremony was as much a reaction to new forms of radicalism as a residual legacy of the nation's archaism.23 This book aims to trace the early development of English republicanism not through the texts of ' high ' political theory ...
... royal ceremony was as much a reaction to new forms of radicalism as a residual legacy of the nation's archaism.23 This book aims to trace the early development of English republicanism not through the texts of ' high ' political theory ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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