The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English RevolutionN. H. Keeble "This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of the succeeding period of constitutional experiment were enacted and refigured in writing which both shaped and was shaped by the tumultuous times. The various strategies of this battle of the books are explored through essays on the course of events, intellectual trends and the publishing industry; in discussions of canonical figures such as Milton, Marvell, Bunyan and Clarendon; and in accounts of women's writing and of fictional and non-fictional prose. A full chronology, detailed guides to further reading and a glossary are included." -- Publisher description. |
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... James McFarlane The Cambridge Companion to Brecht edited by Peter Thomason and Glendyr Sacks The Cambridge Chaucer Companion edited by Piero Boitani and Jill Mann The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare edited by Margreta de Grazia and ...
... James McFarlane The Cambridge Companion to Brecht edited by Peter Thomason and Glendyr Sacks The Cambridge Chaucer Companion edited by Piero Boitani and Jill Mann The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare edited by Margreta de Grazia and ...
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... James Joyce edited by Derek Attridge The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot edited by A. David Moody The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound edited by Ira B. Nadel The Cambridge Companion to Beckett edited by John Pilling The Cambridge ...
... James Joyce edited by Derek Attridge The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot edited by A. David Moody The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound edited by Ira B. Nadel The Cambridge Companion to Beckett edited by John Pilling The Cambridge ...
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... James VI of Scotland as James I of England Birth of Thomas , 3rd Baron Fairfax Death of James I Accession of Charles I Publication of the first of Lady Eleanor Douglas ' sixty tracts Birth of Richard Cromwell , afterwards Lord Protector ...
... James VI of Scotland as James I of England Birth of Thomas , 3rd Baron Fairfax Death of James I Accession of Charles I Publication of the first of Lady Eleanor Douglas ' sixty tracts Birth of Richard Cromwell , afterwards Lord Protector ...
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... James , Duke of York , afterwards James II ( 14 October ) Performance of Milton's masque Comus Trial and punishment of the Puritan activists William Prynne , John Bastwick and Henry Burton Star Chamber Decree concerning Printing Trial ...
... James , Duke of York , afterwards James II ( 14 October ) Performance of Milton's masque Comus Trial and punishment of the Puritan activists William Prynne , John Bastwick and Henry Burton Star Chamber Decree concerning Printing Trial ...
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... James Harrington's The Commonwealth of Oceana Publication of Hobbes ' The Questions concerning Liberty , Necessity and Chance Publication of Cowley's Poems ( including Davideis ) Publication of Anthony Sparrow's A Rationale upon the ...
... James Harrington's The Commonwealth of Oceana Publication of Hobbes ' The Questions concerning Liberty , Necessity and Chance Publication of Cowley's Poems ( including Davideis ) Publication of Anthony Sparrow's A Rationale upon the ...
Contents
The causes and course of the British Civil Wars | 13 |
Ideas in conflict political and religious thought during the English Revolution | 32 |
Texts in conflict the press and the Civil War | 50 |
II | 69 |
Radical pamphleteering | 71 |
Miltons prose and the Revolution | 87 |
Andrew Marvell and the Revolution | 107 |
III | 125 |
IV | 179 |
Royalist lyric | 181 |
Prayerbook devotion the literature of the proscribed episcopal church | 198 |
Royalist epic and romance | 215 |
V | 231 |
The English Revolution and English historiography | 233 |
Paradise Lost from Civil War to Restoration | 251 |
Bunyan and the Holy War | 268 |
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