Title: Writing the English Republic : poetry, rhetoric, and politics, 1627-1660 /
Authors: Norbrook, David, 1950-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Milton, John, Political and social views.; English poetry History and criticism; Rhetoric Political aspects Great Britain History; Politics and literature Great Britain History; Republicanism Great Britain History; Political poetry, English History and criticism.; English poetry Roman influences; Republicanism in literature.; Great Britain History Literature and the war.; Great Britain Politics and government; Great Britain Politics and government
Abstract: "The English republic of the mid-seventeenth century is traditionally viewed as an aberration in political and literary history. In this history of republican culture, David Norbrook argues that the English republican imagination had deep roots in humanist literary culture, and was far from being crushed by the Restoration of 1660. Writing the English Republic will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars."--BOOK JACKET.
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 -- Appendix: Henry Marten's poem to Cromwell.