Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries
Subtitle: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780521032988
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Eastern Europe; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature--Puritan authors--History; English literature--Puritan authors--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Eastern European
First sentence: Among Milton's radical contemporaries perhaps no writer expressed greater conflict with the Revolution and its evolution in the 1640s and 1650s than did the flamboyant and fiery John Lilburne, leader of the Levellers during the Civil War and the Interregnum.