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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... established a rule of terror a hundred years earlier in 1534 . Although his ultimate aim was the elimination of thieves and although his ultimate belief lay in hanging as the best deterrent , Lee realized that sometimes a judicious ...
... established a rule of terror a hundred years earlier in 1534 . Although his ultimate aim was the elimination of thieves and although his ultimate belief lay in hanging as the best deterrent , Lee realized that sometimes a judicious ...
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... established ' ; stabled wolves - established clergy . These are the institutionalized destroyers of Christian virtue , of the flock of innocent sheep . This reading is given confirmation when Comus rebukes the Lady after her speech on ...
... established ' ; stabled wolves - established clergy . These are the institutionalized destroyers of Christian virtue , of the flock of innocent sheep . This reading is given confirmation when Comus rebukes the Lady after her speech on ...
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... established a co - operative settlement . Other groups sprang up elsewhere in England , and the beginnings of a ground- roots communism were established . Needless to say they were suppressed , their crops destroyed , their housing ...
... established a co - operative settlement . Other groups sprang up elsewhere in England , and the beginnings of a ground- roots communism were established . Needless to say they were suppressed , their crops destroyed , their housing ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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