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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... writers here dealt with were much more current two centuries ago than they are today . In 1802 Wordsworth could still write , with an air of familiarity : 21 J. S [ treater ] . , A Shield Against the Parthian Dart ( 1659 ; E988.11 ) ...
... writers here dealt with were much more current two centuries ago than they are today . In 1802 Wordsworth could still write , with an air of familiarity : 21 J. S [ treater ] . , A Shield Against the Parthian Dart ( 1659 ; E988.11 ) ...
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... writers . He himself , however , was also involved in a process that contributed greatly to the later eclipse of ... Writing of the Romantic reaction against rhetoric , Martin Thom observes : ' After the Terror ... a line would be ...
... writers . He himself , however , was also involved in a process that contributed greatly to the later eclipse of ... Writing of the Romantic reaction against rhetoric , Martin Thom observes : ' After the Terror ... a line would be ...
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... writers like Milton and Marvell from their timeless pantheon and looks at the poems as they were first composed or ... writing that is often difficult of access . Broadening the scope of literary history in this way makes it evident ...
... writers like Milton and Marvell from their timeless pantheon and looks at the poems as they were first composed or ... writing that is often difficult of access . Broadening the scope of literary history in this way makes it evident ...
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... writers , many Renaissance humanists inherited the view that rhetoric had declined under the Roman emperors . The spirit of free and open speech amongst equals that had been enjoyed by the political elite under the republic gave way to ...
... writers , many Renaissance humanists inherited the view that rhetoric had declined under the Roman emperors . The spirit of free and open speech amongst equals that had been enjoyed by the political elite under the republic gave way to ...
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... writers to be studied below engaged in that kind of dialogue ; in that sense , classical writers belonged as much to the seventeenth century as the panegyrists of courts and monarchs . This kind of passionate involvement with the past ...
... writers to be studied below engaged in that kind of dialogue ; in that sense , classical writers belonged as much to the seventeenth century as the panegyrists of courts and monarchs . This kind of passionate involvement with the past ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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