Writing the English Republic : poetry, rhetoric and politics, 1627-1660
David Norbrook (Creator)
This paperback edition of David Norbrook's highly acclaimed book is a magisterial history of republican political culture that sets texts by Marvell and Milton in richly detailed context. '[A] marvellously original, densely researched study of the English republican imagination.' Tom Paulin, The Independent
Print Book, English, 2000
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.], 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
XIII, 509 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
9780521632751, 9780521785693, 0521632757, 0521785693
1039056866
Introduction; 1. Lucan and the poetry of civil war; 2. The King's peace and the people's war, 1630–43; 3. Rhetoric, Republicanism and the public sphere: Marten, Waller, and Milton, 1641–44; 4. Uncivil peace: politics and literary culture 1645–49; 5. Poetry and the Commonwealth, 1649–53; 6. Double names: Marvell and the Commonwealth; 7. King Oliver? Protectoral Augustanism and its critics, 1653–58; 8. Republicanizing Cromwell; 9. Culture and anarchy? The revival and eclipse of Republicanism, 1658–60; 10. Paradise Lost and English Republicanism; Appendix.