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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... seen the re - emergence of constitutional 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 ...
... seen the re - emergence of constitutional 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 ...
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... seen as an enlightened piece of legislation . Twenty years of bitter contention between and within families and social and religious groups needed obliv- ion to heal them . In the longer term , however , such forgetting has had its ...
... seen as an enlightened piece of legislation . Twenty years of bitter contention between and within families and social and religious groups needed obliv- ion to heal them . In the longer term , however , such forgetting has had its ...
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... seen as continuing aspects of English republicanism , but Americans can still find it hard to understand how little those links are acknowledged in the founding fathers ' Old World . At the basic level of imag- ining a political and ...
... seen as continuing aspects of English republicanism , but Americans can still find it hard to understand how little those links are acknowledged in the founding fathers ' Old World . At the basic level of imag- ining a political and ...
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... seen as a reinvention of rhetoric , that central art of civic humanism . ' Humanism ' in this context does not mean placing man at the centre of the universe but , more technically , the movement to give the arts of language a central ...
... seen as a reinvention of rhetoric , that central art of civic humanism . ' Humanism ' in this context does not mean placing man at the centre of the universe but , more technically , the movement to give the arts of language a central ...
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... seen as one more attempt at recovering the spirit of the classical forum and adapting it to modern conditions . Republicanism before the 1640s may not have had the practical option of being a programme rather than a language ; but a ...
... seen as one more attempt at recovering the spirit of the classical forum and adapting it to modern conditions . Republicanism before the 1640s may not have had the practical option of being a programme rather than a language ; but a ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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