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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... kind of obsessively detailed 13 Walter Blith , The English Improver Improved ( 1652 ; E666.4 ) ; Andrew McRae , God Speed the Plough : The Representation of Agrarian England , 1500-1660 ( Cambridge , 1996 ) , p . 227 . 14 For example ...
... kind of obsessively detailed 13 Walter Blith , The English Improver Improved ( 1652 ; E666.4 ) ; Andrew McRae , God Speed the Plough : The Representation of Agrarian England , 1500-1660 ( Cambridge , 1996 ) , p . 227 . 14 For example ...
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... kind of personal 35 Sir Philip Sidney , The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ( The Old Arcadia ) , ed . Jean Robertson ( Oxford , 1973 ) , p . 321 . 36 Patrick Collinson , ' De Republica Anglorum ' and ' The Monarchical Republic of Queen ...
... kind of personal 35 Sir Philip Sidney , The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ( The Old Arcadia ) , ed . Jean Robertson ( Oxford , 1973 ) , p . 321 . 36 Patrick Collinson , ' De Republica Anglorum ' and ' The Monarchical Republic of Queen ...
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... 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 emerges especially vividly in the title- page ...
... 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 emerges especially vividly in the title- page ...
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... kind here attempted are often dismissed as Whiggish or teleological . The present narrative does unashamedly aim at a long view , at conveying the sharply shifting rhythms of the mid - century's crises , the recurrent blockages , sudden ...
... kind here attempted are often dismissed as Whiggish or teleological . The present narrative does unashamedly aim at a long view , at conveying the sharply shifting rhythms of the mid - century's crises , the recurrent blockages , sudden ...
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