David Norbrook Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660
Cambridge University Press | 2000 | ISBN: 0521785693 | 525 pages | PDF | 20,6 MB
This magisterial new history of seventeenth-century republican political culture sets key texts by Marvell and Milton in a richly detailed context, showing how writers reimagined English 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 a royalist heritage, it will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars.