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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... radical theme to be perceived in the volume . Both Moseley as publisher and Milton as writer would have been aware ... radical impulses should be explored . And though the apolitical , conservative , and respectable reference of ...
... radical theme to be perceived in the volume . Both Moseley as publisher and Milton as writer would have been aware ... radical impulses should be explored . And though the apolitical , conservative , and respectable reference of ...
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... radical . So William Morris in the height of his Marxist activities could write in a questionnaire in the Pall Mall Gazette ( 2 February 1886 ) that he hated Milton for his cold classicism and Puritanism.3 There was nothing radical in ...
... radical . So William Morris in the height of his Marxist activities could write in a questionnaire in the Pall Mall Gazette ( 2 February 1886 ) that he hated Milton for his cold classicism and Puritanism.3 There was nothing radical in ...
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... radical positions - looking to rediscover heroes of the past , sources in the past for current radical positions - just as Milton and others during the Civil War and Interregnum sought justification of their positions in the Anglo ...
... radical positions - looking to rediscover heroes of the past , sources in the past for current radical positions - just as Milton and others during the Civil War and Interregnum sought justification of their positions in the Anglo ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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