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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... royal service and a playful revival of the classical city state . Sir Philip Sidney , who was uneasy with his status as a courtier , included a republican faction in his imagined Arcadia . He certainly did not endorse the republicans ...
... royal service and a playful revival of the classical city state . Sir Philip Sidney , who was uneasy with his status as a courtier , included a republican faction in his imagined Arcadia . He certainly did not endorse the republicans ...
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... royal power would threaten ' republi- can ' common good could easily facilitate a move towards more radically anti- 41 Thurloe to Henry Cromwell , 16 February 1658 , TSP , VI , 806 . 42 Oxford Latin Dictionary , ' respublica ' , 3–4 ...
... royal power would threaten ' republi- can ' common good could easily facilitate a move towards more radically anti- 41 Thurloe to Henry Cromwell , 16 February 1658 , TSP , VI , 806 . 42 Oxford Latin Dictionary , ' respublica ' , 3–4 ...
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... royal- ist contemporaries , and whose life history , beyond the light cast by her own writings , remains in the shadows of so much republican culture . Hutchinson would have played a larger part in this book as originally conceived ...
... royal- ist contemporaries , and whose life history , beyond the light cast by her own writings , remains in the shadows of so much republican culture . Hutchinson would have played a larger part in this book as originally conceived ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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