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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... Welsh territory ? Even to ask whether such distinctions matter or are valid is to raise the political . Ludlow is redolent of the border history , and the border history was often the history of England . Sir John Doddridge gave the ...
... Welsh territory ? Even to ask whether such distinctions matter or are valid is to raise the political . Ludlow is redolent of the border history , and the border history was often the history of England . Sir John Doddridge gave the ...
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... Welsh descent ; another was a Pembrokeshire lawyer , John White . But the simultaneous programme of publishing religious books in Welsh translation financed by Heylyn and Sir Thomas Middleton , a former Lord Mayor of London who was also ...
... Welsh descent ; another was a Pembrokeshire lawyer , John White . But the simultaneous programme of publishing religious books in Welsh translation financed by Heylyn and Sir Thomas Middleton , a former Lord Mayor of London who was also ...
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... Welsh agricultural income was from cattle sales , as A. H. Dodd writes : Next in importance to the sales of cattle came those of butter and woollens ... woollen cloth woven and spun by unorganised peasants of the north in the upland ...
... Welsh agricultural income was from cattle sales , as A. H. Dodd writes : Next in importance to the sales of cattle came those of butter and woollens ... woollen cloth woven and spun by unorganised peasants of the north in the upland ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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