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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... force of much of Milton's Readie and Easie Way is that the English people have turned irredeemably to monarchy and are beyond hope ; the illocutionary force of publishing two editions in concert with other republicans is a significant ...
... force of much of Milton's Readie and Easie Way is that the English people have turned irredeemably to monarchy and are beyond hope ; the illocutionary force of publishing two editions in concert with other republicans is a significant ...
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... force behind the English educational system . Rhetoric , which was given renewed prominence at the expense of scholastic logic , emphasized the public implications of all speech , whether in verse or prose , whether of the heart or the ...
... force behind the English educational system . Rhetoric , which was given renewed prominence at the expense of scholastic logic , emphasized the public implications of all speech , whether in verse or prose , whether of the heart or the ...
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... forces . And yet it aroused passionate emotions . " The good old cause ' , or ' the common cause ' , are vague terms ; yet they are also in effect translations of ' res publica ' , in the broader Latin sense that was rendered in English ...
... forces . And yet it aroused passionate emotions . " The good old cause ' , or ' the common cause ' , are vague terms ; yet they are also in effect translations of ' res publica ' , in the broader Latin sense that was rendered in English ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook Limited preview - 1999 |
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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