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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... true , made Downing a republican : he was a fierce defender of Cromwell's semi - monarchical regime against its republican critics . For some republicans , Cromwell's coup of 1653 was at least as crucial a historical moment as the ...
... true , made Downing a republican : he was a fierce defender of Cromwell's semi - monarchical regime against its republican critics . For some republicans , Cromwell's coup of 1653 was at least as crucial a historical moment as the ...
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... true that even at the high tide of the 1650s the proportion of commit- ted republicans in the population was a very small one , and the quasi- republican regime that was toppled by the monarchy was probably the most despised government ...
... true that even at the high tide of the 1650s the proportion of commit- ted republicans in the population was a very small one , and the quasi- republican regime that was toppled by the monarchy was probably the most despised government ...
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... true republicans from others , historians can sound rather like Oliver Cromwell in 1658 , exhorting his republican critics to explain 40 George Wither , Carmen Ternarium Semi - Cynicum ( [ 1649 ] ; W 3150 ) , in J. Milton French ...
... true republicans from others , historians can sound rather like Oliver Cromwell in 1658 , exhorting his republican critics to explain 40 George Wither , Carmen Ternarium Semi - Cynicum ( [ 1649 ] ; W 3150 ) , in J. Milton French ...
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... true history is ' a liberty proper onely to Common - wealths , and neuer permitted to Kingdomes , but vnder good Princes ? 46 When in 1636 John Dury wrote from Sweden that changes of government would ' tend to a Republican forme of ...
... true history is ' a liberty proper onely to Common - wealths , and neuer permitted to Kingdomes , but vnder good Princes ? 46 When in 1636 John Dury wrote from Sweden that changes of government would ' tend to a Republican forme of ...
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... true to form in the vigour with which it opposed its allegedly unenlightened enemies . Since the days of the Athenian republic , it has been clear that a political form which is democratic and empowering for those given citizenship can ...
... true to form in the vigour with which it opposed its allegedly unenlightened enemies . Since the days of the Athenian republic , it has been clear that a political form which is democratic and empowering for those given citizenship can ...
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