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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... spirit , when some of Milton's political works were publicly burned in Oxford . ' The more violent the erasure , however , the more it can be seen that there was something to hide . In 1662 Sir George Downing , the English Resident in ...
... spirit , when some of Milton's political works were publicly burned in Oxford . ' The more violent the erasure , however , the more it can be seen that there was something to hide . In 1662 Sir George Downing , the English Resident in ...
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... spirit of free and open speech amongst equals that had been enjoyed by the political elite under the republic gave way to one - sided praise . The shift from deliberative to demonstrative rhetoric , from argument to praise , could be ...
... spirit of free and open speech amongst equals that had been enjoyed by the political elite under the republic gave way to one - sided praise . The shift from deliberative to demonstrative rhetoric , from argument to praise , could be ...
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... 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 distinctively republican emphasis on language ...
... 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 distinctively republican emphasis on language ...
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... spirit of experiment informed some of the best prose and verse of the mid - century , and has left traces that are open to recovery despite repeated acts of oblivion . 57 Mercurius Politicus no . 1 , 6–13 June 1650 , E603.6 , p . 10 . 1 ...
... spirit of experiment informed some of the best prose and verse of the mid - century , and has left traces that are open to recovery despite repeated acts of oblivion . 57 Mercurius Politicus no . 1 , 6–13 June 1650 , E603.6 , p . 10 . 1 ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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