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Writing the English Republic : Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660
Writing the English Republic Poetry Rhetoric and Politics 16271660 Author:David Norbrook This magisterial new history of seventeenth-century republican political culture sets key texts by Marvell and Milton in a richly detailed context, showing how writers reimagined English literary culture without kingship. The book draws on extensive archival research, bringing to light exciting and neglected manuscript and printed sources. Offer... more »ing a bold new narrative of the whole period, and a timely reminder that England has a republican as well as a royalist heritage, it will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars.« less