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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... civil war were less glorious than the literary images of heroic grandeur . Although past civil wars had later found epic treatment , the contemporary slaughter of fellow - countrymen could have little appeal . The two most famous heroic ...
... civil war were less glorious than the literary images of heroic grandeur . Although past civil wars had later found epic treatment , the contemporary slaughter of fellow - countrymen could have little appeal . The two most famous heroic ...
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... Civil Wars and the Regicide . Hudibras and Ralph are buffoons and ' bumkins ' ; at the same time they are figures from a recent , all - too - real political experience . The reader , laughing at the fight over the bear , would remember ...
... Civil Wars and the Regicide . Hudibras and Ralph are buffoons and ' bumkins ' ; at the same time they are figures from a recent , all - too - real political experience . The reader , laughing at the fight over the bear , would remember ...
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... civil and Christian , most cherishing to vertue and true religion , but also ( I may say it with greatest probabilitie ) planely commended or rather enjoind by our Saviour himself , to all Christians , not without remarkable ...
... civil and Christian , most cherishing to vertue and true religion , but also ( I may say it with greatest probabilitie ) planely commended or rather enjoind by our Saviour himself , to all Christians , not without remarkable ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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