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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... later Sidney , Marvel , Harrington , Young Vane , and others who called Milton friend.25 ' O that I might have such an action to remember on my Death - bed ! ' wrote Coleridge of the regicide.26 At this time Thomas May still retained a ...
... later Sidney , Marvel , Harrington , Young Vane , and others who called Milton friend.25 ' O that I might have such an action to remember on my Death - bed ! ' wrote Coleridge of the regicide.26 At this time Thomas May still retained a ...
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... later period , and even went beyond them - for a time the public sphere was far wider than merely ' bourgeois'39 Yet his model is helpful , not least because of the congruence between its own terms and those of seventeenth - century ...
... later period , and even went beyond them - for a time the public sphere was far wider than merely ' bourgeois'39 Yet his model is helpful , not least because of the congruence between its own terms and those of seventeenth - century ...
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... future . It is no accident that this period should have seen the emergence of a poetics of the sublime , of what lies just beyond the available means of understanding.51 It is well known that a later theorist of 18 Introduction.
... future . It is no accident that this period should have seen the emergence of a poetics of the sublime , of what lies just beyond the available means of understanding.51 It is well known that a later theorist of 18 Introduction.
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook Limited preview - 1999 |
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