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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All nature labours : human male and female — ploughman and milkmaid ; the
labouring clouds ; the insect world , the bee , type and reminder of human social
labour here as in Marvell's ' The Garden ' ; and the supernatural world . Labour is
...
All nature labours : human male and female — ploughman and milkmaid ; the
labouring clouds ; the insect world , the bee , type and reminder of human social
labour here as in Marvell's ' The Garden ' ; and the supernatural world . Labour is
...
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In describing the changes worked by Comus's orient liquor ' , the attendant Spirit
is quite specific : Soon as the potion works , their human countenance The
express resemblance of the gods , is changed Into some brutish form of wolf , or
bear ...
In describing the changes worked by Comus's orient liquor ' , the attendant Spirit
is quite specific : Soon as the potion works , their human countenance The
express resemblance of the gods , is changed Into some brutish form of wolf , or
bear ...
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Being chained to the lake marks his defeat , but the description allows us to see
that he was once an angel ; the time he spends there is given to the human
reader in human terms , but the human time - unit is used to emphasize that
Satan is ...
Being chained to the lake marks his defeat , but the description allows us to see
that he was once an angel ; the time he spends there is given to the human
reader in human terms , but the human time - unit is used to emphasize that
Satan is ...
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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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