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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... Presbyterian denunciation of sec- tarian practices , published Levellers ' Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens published Failing to come to terms with Charles I , the Scots , for £ 200,000 , hand him over to the English ( 30 January ) ...
... Presbyterian denunciation of sec- tarian practices , published Levellers ' Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens published Failing to come to terms with Charles I , the Scots , for £ 200,000 , hand him over to the English ( 30 January ) ...
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... Presbyterian MPs who favoured a negotiated settle- ment with the King from entering the Commons , Colonel John Pride's Purge of the Long Parliament secures a majority for pro- ceeding against the King by creating what was popularly ...
... Presbyterian MPs who favoured a negotiated settle- ment with the King from entering the Commons , Colonel John Pride's Purge of the Long Parliament secures a majority for pro- ceeding against the King by creating what was popularly ...
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... Presbyterian MPs excluded by Pride's Purge readmitted , so restor- ing the Long Parliament ( 21 February ) Long Parliament dissolves itself ( 16 March ) Charles issues Declaration of Breda , apparently offering liberty to tender ...
... Presbyterian MPs excluded by Pride's Purge readmitted , so restor- ing the Long Parliament ( 21 February ) Long Parliament dissolves itself ( 16 March ) Charles issues Declaration of Breda , apparently offering liberty to tender ...
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... Presbyterian Puritans who sided with Parliament , he was ' unfeignedly for King and Parliament ' , and was commit- ted to the Civil War aim of bringing the King to a reconciliation with Parliament . When , in 1645 , he joined the Army ...
... Presbyterian Puritans who sided with Parliament , he was ' unfeignedly for King and Parliament ' , and was commit- ted to the Civil War aim of bringing the King to a reconciliation with Parliament . When , in 1645 , he joined the Army ...
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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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