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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... sense of strain from royalist propaganda into the notionally value - free technical terms of academia . The republic's political 1 The Diary of Samuel Pepys , ed . Robert Latham and William Matthews ( 1970–83 ) , I , 280 . 2 Cited by ...
... sense of strain from royalist propaganda into the notionally value - free technical terms of academia . The republic's political 1 The Diary of Samuel Pepys , ed . Robert Latham and William Matthews ( 1970–83 ) , I , 280 . 2 Cited by ...
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... sense of occupying a space in cultural history that is not wholly new . Tom Nairn , in the most powerful modern critique of monarchism , has reinforced that verdict , considering the term ' bourgeois revolution ' to be ' over ...
... sense of occupying a space in cultural history that is not wholly new . Tom Nairn , in the most powerful modern critique of monarchism , has reinforced that verdict , considering the term ' bourgeois revolution ' to be ' over ...
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... sense , classical writers belonged as much to the seventeenth century as the panegyrists of courts and monarchs . This kind of passionate involvement with the past emerges especially vividly in the title- page to May's continuation of ...
... sense , classical writers belonged as much to the seventeenth century as the panegyrists of courts and monarchs . This kind of passionate involvement with the past emerges especially vividly in the title- page to May's continuation of ...
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... sense . It will emerge clearly enough that republican culture , while less marginal than conventionally assumed , was always in a precarious situation ; this is a story of discontinuity as well as continuity . In some respects , after ...
... sense . It will emerge clearly enough that republican culture , while less marginal than conventionally assumed , was always in a precarious situation ; this is a story of discontinuity as well as continuity . In some respects , after ...
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... sense that was rendered in English as ' common weal ' . That elusive word ' res ' could refer to a specific institution , the state , or a cause , an ideal , and ' res publica ' fluctuated in Latin usage between a specific political ...
... sense that was rendered in English as ' common weal ' . That elusive word ' res ' could refer to a specific institution , the state , or a cause , an ideal , and ' res publica ' fluctuated in Latin usage between a specific political ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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