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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... Hall , Marten , May , Wither - have received hardly any attention in print . Their memory has been kept at bay by a cordon sanitaire of defensive ridicule . Though none of them equals Milton as a writer , they deserve some- thing better ...
... Hall , Marten , May , Wither - have received hardly any attention in print . Their memory has been kept at bay by a cordon sanitaire of defensive ridicule . Though none of them equals Milton as a writer , they deserve some- thing better ...
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... Hall in 1988 to cele- brate the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution , a plaque marking the execution of Charles I was discreetly covered with a curtain.10 The celebra- tions in France the following year for the bicentenary of the ...
... Hall in 1988 to cele- brate the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution , a plaque marking the execution of Charles I was discreetly covered with a curtain.10 The celebra- tions in France the following year for the bicentenary of the ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook Limited preview - 1999 |
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