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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... devils can manage to live in peace - so different from the multiplications of divisions that occurred in Britain . The poet's own voice utters a cry of anguish in his description of Hell : O shame to men ! Devil with devil damned Firm ...
... devils can manage to live in peace - so different from the multiplications of divisions that occurred in Britain . The poet's own voice utters a cry of anguish in his description of Hell : O shame to men ! Devil with devil damned Firm ...
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... devils an image of the fallen world ; but the image at the same time reduces the devils to the insect triviality of the locusts they were compared with when Satan summoned them from the lake . When the grand debate begins in Book ii in ...
... devils an image of the fallen world ; but the image at the same time reduces the devils to the insect triviality of the locusts they were compared with when Satan summoned them from the lake . When the grand debate begins in Book ii in ...
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... devils , too , live in a fragile straw - built citadel . Such are all political structures to the committed revolutionary . Here the devils have become for their own convenience and by their own choice like hissing insects . God will ...
... devils , too , live in a fragile straw - built citadel . Such are all political structures to the committed revolutionary . Here the devils have become for their own convenience and by their own choice like hissing insects . God will ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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