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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... Hudibras referred to is this : The Knight with one dead - doing blow Resolving to decide the fight , And she with quick and cunning slight Avoiding it , the force and weight He charg'd upon it was so great , As almost sway'd him to the ...
... Hudibras referred to is this : The Knight with one dead - doing blow Resolving to decide the fight , And she with quick and cunning slight Avoiding it , the force and weight He charg'd upon it was so great , As almost sway'd him to the ...
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... Hudibras . We do not need Sir Roger L'Estrange's unconvincing Key to Hudibras ( 1715 ) to be reminded that contemporary readers read Hudibras in the full context of the Civil Wars and the Regicide . Hudibras and Ralph are buffoons and ...
... Hudibras . We do not need Sir Roger L'Estrange's unconvincing Key to Hudibras ( 1715 ) to be reminded that contemporary readers read Hudibras in the full context of the Civil Wars and the Regicide . Hudibras and Ralph are buffoons and ...
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... Hudibras who makes this plea for concord is ( in Butler's view ) the poem's representative of one of the major causes of faction , one of the Presbyterians largely responsible for the Civil War . Declaiming against the conflict of a ...
... Hudibras who makes this plea for concord is ( in Butler's view ) the poem's representative of one of the major causes of faction , one of the Presbyterians largely responsible for the Civil War . Declaiming against the conflict of a ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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