Writing the English Republic
Subtitle: poetry, rhetoric, and politics, 1627-1660
By: David Norbrook.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
Subjects: Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views.; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Republicanism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Political poetry, English -- History and criticism.; English poetry -- Roman influences.; Republicanism in literature.; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Literature and the war.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1625-1649.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.