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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... Verse ( 1992 ) , as well as numerous articles and reviews in literary and historical journals . He has held a British Academy Research Readership and visiting fellowships in the United States , and has made a lecture tour of Australia ...
... Verse ( 1992 ) , as well as numerous articles and reviews in literary and historical journals . He has held a British Academy Research Readership and visiting fellowships in the United States , and has made a lecture tour of Australia ...
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... and Marvell ( I owe this reference to Oliver Taplin ) ; Tom Paulin , The Faber Book of Political Verse ( London and Boston , 1986 ) . Great men have been among us ; hands that penned Acts of oblivion and republican speech - acts 7.
... and Marvell ( I owe this reference to Oliver Taplin ) ; Tom Paulin , The Faber Book of Political Verse ( London and Boston , 1986 ) . Great men have been among us ; hands that penned Acts of oblivion and republican speech - acts 7.
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... verse were especially permeable , whether in Wither's versified tracts or Milton's image - dense prose . In approaching the period , we do well to set aside a narrow model of what counts as literary and to be open to experimentation ...
... verse were especially permeable , whether in Wither's versified tracts or Milton's image - dense prose . In approaching the period , we do well to set aside a narrow model of what counts as literary and to be open to experimentation ...
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... verse or prose , whether of the heart or the agora . There was a terrible irony in the fact that the injunction ' Scribere est agere , ' to write is to act , should have been used to condemn Algernon Sidney to death for writing his ...
... verse or prose , whether of the heart or the agora . There was a terrible irony in the fact that the injunction ' Scribere est agere , ' to write is to act , should have been used to condemn Algernon Sidney to death for writing his ...
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... 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 Lucan and the poetry of civil war Politics and 22 ...
... 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 Lucan and the poetry of civil war Politics and 22 ...
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