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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... allusion is to the Epistle to the Hebrews 12 : 25-7 : See that ye refuse not him that speaketh . For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth , much more shall not we escape , if we turn away from him that speaketh from ...
... allusion is to the Epistle to the Hebrews 12 : 25-7 : See that ye refuse not him that speaketh . For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth , much more shall not we escape , if we turn away from him that speaketh from ...
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... allusion to the grounds of Fairfax's resignation is specific . Yet the allusion is carefully depoliticized , deliberately generalized , and abstracted from any specific , contemporary signification . Conscience is presented in the ...
... allusion to the grounds of Fairfax's resignation is specific . Yet the allusion is carefully depoliticized , deliberately generalized , and abstracted from any specific , contemporary signification . Conscience is presented in the ...
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... allusion to the battles of the Civil War.47 But while a general reference is apparent , attempts to make specific identification are always thwarted . The very opening of the sequence would seem to invite interpretation . And now to the ...
... allusion to the battles of the Civil War.47 But while a general reference is apparent , attempts to make specific identification are always thwarted . The very opening of the sequence would seem to invite interpretation . And now to the ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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