Writing the English Republic : poetry, rhetoric, and politics, 1627-1660 / David Norbrook
1999, First Edition. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #464475
ISBN: 0521632757
Physical description; xiii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Originally published: 1999. Contents; Introduction: acts of oblivion and republican speech-acts -- Lucan and the poetry of civil war -- The king's peace and the people's war, 1630-1643 -- Rhetoric, republicanism and the public sphere: Marten, Waller and Milton, 1641-1644 -- Uncivil peace: politics and literary culture, 1645-1649 -- Defending the Commonwealth, 1649-1653 -- Double names: Marvell and the Commonwealth -- King Oliver? protectoral augustanism and its critics, 1653-1658 -- Republicanizing Cromwell -- Culture and anarchy? the revival and eclipse of republicanism, 1658-1660 -- Paradise lost and English republicanism. Subjects; English poetry. Early modern, 1500-1700. History and criticism. Political poetry, English. History and criticism. Republicanism. Great Britain. History. 17th century. Politics and literature. Great Britain. History. 17th century. Great Britain. Politics and government. 1625-1649. Great Britain. Politics and government. 1649-1660. Milton, John. 1608-1674. Political and social views.
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