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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... translation of Selden , Of the Dominion , or Ownership of the Sea , 1652. By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library 295 14. Henry Marten , manuscript poem to Oliver Cromwell . By permission of the British Library ...
... translation of Selden , Of the Dominion , or Ownership of the Sea , 1652. By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library 295 14. Henry Marten , manuscript poem to Oliver Cromwell . By permission of the British Library ...
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... translation in 1789 and again in 1792 , as part of a campaign for the trial of Louis XVI , and works by Marchamont Nedham , James Harrington and Edward Sexby were involved in French debates.12 Some English republicans had indeed taken ...
... translation in 1789 and again in 1792 , as part of a campaign for the trial of Louis XVI , and works by Marchamont Nedham , James Harrington and Edward Sexby were involved in French debates.12 Some English republicans had indeed taken ...
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... translation of Lucan's Pharsalia with Milton's Paradise Lost . The latter work is often inter- preted as the product of the author's despair at the collapse of republican hopes . In trying to show close structural parallels between the ...
... translation of Lucan's Pharsalia with Milton's Paradise Lost . The latter work is often inter- preted as the product of the author's despair at the collapse of republican hopes . In trying to show close structural parallels between the ...
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... translations of ' res publica ' , in the broader Latin 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 ...
... translations of ' res publica ' , in the broader Latin 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 ...
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... translation is given as the version best known to seventeenth - century readers , but in its attempts at literal fidelity it fails to do justice to Lucan's flair and wit . Of several recent translations , I would particularly recommend ...
... translation is given as the version best known to seventeenth - century readers , but in its attempts at literal fidelity it fails to do justice to Lucan's flair and wit . Of several recent translations , I would particularly recommend ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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