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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... liberty.14 England produced a poetics of sublimity that has parallels in revolutionary France.15 The American Revolution can more easily be seen as continuing aspects of English republicanism , but Americans can still find it hard to ...
... liberty.14 England produced a poetics of sublimity that has parallels in revolutionary France.15 The American Revolution can more easily be seen as continuing aspects of English republicanism , but Americans can still find it hard to ...
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... liberty to tear the book in two and begin with chapter 5 , but I hope that they will start from chapter 1. Not all the writers I focus on were consistent or committed republicans , but they were open to republican influences and from a ...
... liberty to tear the book in two and begin with chapter 5 , but I hope that they will start from chapter 1. Not all the writers I focus on were consistent or committed republicans , but they were open to republican influences and from a ...
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... liberty proper onely to Common - wealths , and neuer permitted to Kingdomes , but vnder good Princes ? 46 When in 1636 John Dury wrote from Sweden that changes of government would ' tend to a Republican forme of State'47 ( predating any ...
... liberty proper onely to Common - wealths , and neuer permitted to Kingdomes , but vnder good Princes ? 46 When in 1636 John Dury wrote from Sweden that changes of government would ' tend to a Republican forme of State'47 ( predating any ...
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... liberty in the course of working for it , had an excitement that cannot be contained within the precise categories of the history of political thought . Or of reli- gious denominations : in both secular and religious terms , the mid ...
... liberty in the course of working for it , had an excitement that cannot be contained within the precise categories of the history of political thought . Or of reli- gious denominations : in both secular and religious terms , the mid ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook Limited preview - 1999 |
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