Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution"Books," wrote Milton, "are like dragon's teeth that spring up armed men." This study looks at some of the armed men that Milton, Marvell, Browne, and Butler sent off to fight, reading a series of 17th-century literary texts against the historical and political backdrop of the English Revolution. Confronting the formalist taboo on historical and political context, Wilding provides many challenging new readings, exploring issues of war and peace, of economic exploitation, social repression and the radical politics of the Levellers and Diggers. The issues that resulted in revolution three centuries ago are still relevant today, as Wilding persuasively demonstrates in a collection that will interest scholars and students of English literature, history, and political science. |
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Sexual usage becomes usury . Beauty is ... Usury had not become naturalized as
normal social practice ; for us , in a world where credit - card interest - rates are
18-25 per cent per annum contentions about the morality of usury seem remote .
Sexual usage becomes usury . Beauty is ... Usury had not become naturalized as
normal social practice ; for us , in a world where credit - card interest - rates are
18-25 per cent per annum contentions about the morality of usury seem remote .
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... he would become the most Ridiculous Person in the world , but this Age is far
enough from that , for though none ever ... a specific contemporary relevance ;
Raphael's account of the war in heaven becomes a lesson not only for Adam ...
but ...
... he would become the most Ridiculous Person in the world , but this Age is far
enough from that , for though none ever ... a specific contemporary relevance ;
Raphael's account of the war in heaven becomes a lesson not only for Adam ...
but ...
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As a result of the fall they have become political beings . Political ... Their inward
state of mind ' by a significant ambiguity becomes not just an inward condition but
a political state which has been subject to disruption . “ Understanding ruled not ...
As a result of the fall they have become political beings . Political ... Their inward
state of mind ' by a significant ambiguity becomes not just an inward condition but
a political state which has been subject to disruption . “ Understanding ruled not ...
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Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution |
| Authors | Michael Wilding, Reader in English Michael Wilding |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0198128819, 9780198128816 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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