Adam In Seventeenth Century Political Writing In England And New England

Author : Julia Ipgrave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317185581

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Adam in Seventeenth Century Political Writing in England and New England by Julia Ipgrave Pdf

Designed to contribute to a greater understanding of the religious foundations of seventeenth century political writing, this study offers a detailed exploration of the significance of the figure and story of Adam at that time. The book investigates seventeenth-century writings from England and New England-examining writings by Roger Williams and John Eliot, Gerrard Winstanley, John Milton, and John Locke-to explore the varying significance afforded to the Biblical figure of Adam in theories of the polity. In so doing, it counters over-simplified views of modern secular political thought breaking free from the confines of religion, by showing the diversity of political models and possibilities that Adamic theories supported. It provides contextual background for the appreciation of seventeenth-century culture and other cultural artefacts, and feeds into current scholarly interest in the relationship between religion and the public sphere, and in stories of origins and Creation.

Author : Andrew Forsyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108476973

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Common Law and Natural Law in America by Andrew Forsyth Pdf

Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law's varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

Author : Erin Murphy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611490107

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Familial Forms by Erin Murphy Pdf

Familial Forms is the first full-length study to examine how literary writers engaged the politics of genealogy that helped define the "century of revolution." By demonstrating how conflicts over the family-state analogy intersected with the period's battles over succession, including: the ascent of James I, the execution of Charles I, disputes over the terms of the Interregnum government, the Restoration of Charles II, the Exclusion Crisis, the deposition of James II, the ascent of William and Mary, and Anne's failure to produce a surviving heir, this study provides a new map of the seventeenth-century politics of family in England. Beginning with a reconsideration of Jacobean patriarchalism, Familial Forms focuses on the work of John Milton,Lucy Hutchinson, John Dryden, and Mary Astell. From their contrasting political and gendered positions, these authors contemplated and contested the relevance of marriage and kinship to government. Their writing illuminates two crucial elements of England's conflicts. First, the formal qualities of poems and prose tracts reveal that not only was there a competition among different versions of the family-state analogy, but also a competition over its very status as an analogy. Second, through their negotiations of linear and nonlinear forms, Milton, Hutchinson, Dryden, and Astell demonstrate the centrality of temporality to the period's political battles. Through close textual analysis of poetry, political tracts, parliamentary records, and nonliterary genealogies, Familial Forms offers a fresh understanding of the seventeenth-century politics of genealogy. It also provides new answers to long-standing critical questions about the poetic form of canonical works, such as Paradise Lost and Absalom and Achitophel, and illuminates the political significance of newly-canonical works by women writers, including Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeoreum, Hutchinson's Order and Disorder, and Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies.

Author : Sarah C. E. Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198724209

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Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-century Britain by Sarah C. E. Ross Pdf

"This book had its genesis in a doctoral thesis on women's religious writing."

Author : Ronald G. Asch
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782383574

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Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment by Ronald G. Asch Pdf

France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.

Author : Rachel Trubowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191636479

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Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature by Rachel Trubowitz Pdf

Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature connects changing seventeenth-century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern nation, especially between 1603 and 1675. Maternal nurture gains new prominence in the early modern cultural imagination at the precise moment when England undergoes a major paradigm shift — from the traditional, dynastic body politic, organized by organic bonds, to the post-dynastic, modern nation, comprised of symbolic and affective relations. The book also demonstrates that shifting early modern perspectives on Judeo-Christian relations deeply inform the period's interlocking reassessments of maternal nurture and the nation, especially in the case of Milton. The book's five chapters analyze a wide range of reformed and traditional texts, including A pitiless Mother, William Gouge's Of Domesticall Duties, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Charles I's Eikon Basilike, and Milton's Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes. Equal attention is paid to such early modern visual images as The power of women (a late sixteenth-century Dutch engraving), William Marshall's engraved frontispiece to Richard Braithwaite's The English Gentleman and Gentlewoman (1641), and Peter Paul Rubens's painting of Pero and Cimon or Roman Charity (1630). The book argues that competing early modern figurations of the nurturing mother mediate in politically implicated ways between customary biblical models of English kingship and innovative Hebraic/Puritan paradigms of Englishness.

Author : Henry Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Ship money
ISBN : MINN:31951001024339Y

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The Case of Shipmoney by Henry Parker Pdf

Author : Allegra di Bonaventura
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871403476

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For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England by Allegra di Bonaventura Pdf

Winner of the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award Winner the Association for the Study of Connecticut History’s Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award “Incomparably vivid . . . as enthralling a portrait of family life [in colonial New England] as we are likely to have.”—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic, A Midwife’s Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America’s most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary—kept from 1711 until 1758—reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned Adam Jackson for over thirty years. In this engrossing narrative of family life and the slave experience in the colonial North, Allegra di Bonaventura describes the complexity of this master/slave relationship and traces the intertwining stories of two families until the eve of the Revolution. Slavery is often left out of our collective memory of New England’s history, but it was hugely impactful on the central unit of colonial life: the family. In every corner, the lines between slavery and freedom were blurred as families across the social spectrum fought to survive. In this enlightening study, a new portrait of an era emerges.

Author : Dayne C. Riley
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684485338

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Consuming Anxieties by Dayne C. Riley Pdf

Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—a period of vast economic change—recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores how literary satirists represented these consumables—and related anxieties about the changing nature of Britishness—in their work. Riley traces the satirical treatment of wine, beer, ale, gin, pipe tobacco, and snuff from the beginning of Charles II’s reign, through the boom in tobacco’s popularity, to the end of the Gin Craze in libertine poems and plays, anonymous verse, ballad operas, and the satire of canonical writers such as Gay, Pope, and Swift. Focusing on social concerns about class, race, and gender, Consuming Anxieties examines how satirists championed Britain’s economic strength on the world stage while critiquing the effects of consumable luxuries on the British body and consciousness.

Author : M. Suzuki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230305502

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690 by M. Suzuki Pdf

During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.

Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0872206874

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Puritan Political Ideas by Edmund S. Morgan Pdf

In this unique collection, noted historian Edmund Morgan focuses upon three ideas that lay at the root of Puritan political theory and have had a continuing significance in our history: calling, covenant, and the separate spheres of church and state. The selections show the origin of these ideas in the writings of the early English Puritans before the colonization of America, in seventeenth century New England, and finally in new contexts in the eighteenth century. One may read these documents as primary sources of Puritan thought per se, as sources of American intellectual history, or as sources of a political theory that flowered in the early years of the new constitutional republic. --from the Foreword

Author : Gillian Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107037922

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Producing Women's Poetry, 1600-1730 by Gillian Wright Pdf

Gillian Wright combines literary and bibliographical approaches to examine the work of five English women poets in the period 1600-1730.

Author : C. Gray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230605565

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Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain by C. Gray Pdf

This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate.

Author : Patricia Crawford,Laura Gowing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134730902

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Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England by Patricia Crawford,Laura Gowing Pdf

Womens Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on womens lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, Drawing on unpublished, archival materials, the book explores women's: * experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood * beliefs and spirituality * political activities * relationships * mental worlds. In a time when few women could write, this book reveals the multitude of ways in which their voices have left traces in the written record, and deepens our understanding of womens lives in the past.

Author : Christopher D'Addario
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139463096

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Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature by Christopher D'Addario Pdf

The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century caused an unprecedented number of people to emigrate, voluntarily or not, from England. Among these exiles were some of the most important authors in the Anglo-American canon. In this 2007 book, Christopher D'Addario explores how early modern authors thought and wrote about the experience of exile in relation both to their lost homeland and to the new communities they created for themselves abroad. He analyses the writings of first-generation New England Puritans, the Royalists in France during the English Civil War, and the 'interior exiles' of John Milton and John Dryden. D'Addario explores the nature of artistic creation from the religious and political margins of early modern England, and in doing so, provides detailed insight into the psychological and material pressures of displacement and a much overdue study of the importance of exile to the development of early modern literature.