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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... Hell ( 1793 ) , ' The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God , and at liberty when of Devils & Hell , is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing'.1 This has become a basic comment for ...
... Hell ( 1793 ) , ' The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God , and at liberty when of Devils & Hell , is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing'.1 This has become a basic comment for ...
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... Hell is something different . It consists not of ' united excellence ' but of united evil , gathered not into ' one globe of brightnesse ' but into the darkness of Hell . It might be replied that this is to assume things not yet ...
... Hell is something different . It consists not of ' united excellence ' but of united evil , gathered not into ' one globe of brightnesse ' but into the darkness of Hell . It might be replied that this is to assume things not yet ...
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... hell shall unfold , To entertain you two , her widest gates , And send forth all her kings . . . ( iv . 381-3 ) The political organization of hell with its kings , and the political thinking of Satan with the ' league ' he requires ...
... hell shall unfold , To entertain you two , her widest gates , And send forth all her kings . . . ( iv . 381-3 ) The political organization of hell with its kings , and the political thinking of Satan with the ' league ' he requires ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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