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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... critical reading . I have attempted to politicize and historicize , but I have not offered a political or historical study of the writing of the revolutionary period . The essays are critical readings . It seemed possible to begin with ...
... critical reading . I have attempted to politicize and historicize , but I have not offered a political or historical study of the writing of the revolutionary period . The essays are critical readings . It seemed possible to begin with ...
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... critical reversal prefigures the note for later readings of the poem . The tribute to Charles encouraged a belief that Marvell was a Royalist at this point in his career . And so Muriel Bradbrook and M. G. Lloyd Thomas wrote : ' the ...
... critical reversal prefigures the note for later readings of the poem . The tribute to Charles encouraged a belief that Marvell was a Royalist at this point in his career . And so Muriel Bradbrook and M. G. Lloyd Thomas wrote : ' the ...
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... Critical Quarterly , 11 ( 1969 ) , 325-41 ; C. K. Stead , ' The Actor and the Man of Action - Marvell's Horatian Ode ' , Critical Survey , 3 ( 1967 ) , 145-50 ; Robin Grove , ' Marvell ' , Melbourne Critical Review , 6 ( 1963 ) , 31-43 ...
... Critical Quarterly , 11 ( 1969 ) , 325-41 ; C. K. Stead , ' The Actor and the Man of Action - Marvell's Horatian Ode ' , Critical Survey , 3 ( 1967 ) , 145-50 ; Robin Grove , ' Marvell ' , Melbourne Critical Review , 6 ( 1963 ) , 31-43 ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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