Literature And Politics In Cromwellian England

Author : Blair Worden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191528200

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Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England by Blair Worden Pdf

In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses their writings against the background of volatile and dramatic changes of public mood and circumstance. Two figures are shown to have been prominent in their minds. First there is Oliver Cromwell, on whose character and decisions the future of the Puritan Revolution and of the nation rested, and whose ascent the two writers traced and assessed, in both cases with an acute ambivalence. The second is Marchamont Nedham, the pioneering journalist of the civil wars, a close friend of Milton and a man whose writings prove to be intimately linked to Marvell's. The high achievements of Milton and Marvell are shown to belong to world of pressing political debate which Nedham's ephemeral publications helped to shape. The book follows Marvell's transition from royalism to Cromwellianism. In Milton's case we explore the profound effect on his outlook brought by the execution of King Charles I in 1649; his difficult and disillusioning relationship with the successive regimes of the Interregnum; and his attempt to come to terms, in his immortal poetry of the Restoration, with the failure of Puritan rule.

Author : Su Fang Ng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139463102

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Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England by Su Fang Ng Pdf

A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the Civil Wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions of political community. They used family metaphors to debate the limits of political authority, rethink gender roles, and imagine community in a period of social and political upheaval. While critical attention has focused on how the common analogy linking father and king, family and state, bolstered royal and paternal claims to authority and obedience, its meaning was in fact intensely contested. In this wide-ranging study, Su Fang Ng analyses the language and metaphors used to describe the relationship between politics and the family in both literary and political writings and offers a fresh perspective on how seventeenth-century literature reflected as well as influenced political thought.

Author : Kevin Sharpe,Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520378339

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Politics of Discourse by Kevin Sharpe,Steven N. Zwicker Pdf

The outstanding essays in this volume explore the interdependency of literature and history in seventeenth-century England. The relation of text to society is examined both as theory and as practice. The theoretical essays explore writing, reading, and the emergence of the aesthetic as historical phenomena of the seventeenth century. Other contributions examine cultural and political practices that fashioned the century: patronage, representations of authority, the socialization of party politics, and fables of power. What is often separated as a distinct sphere of “literature” is returned to the contexts of other cultural and discursive practices. Using the shaping force of history on the imagination and the status of literature as historical evidence, the authors also claim the power of imaginative texts to mold as well as reflect history. Politics of Discourse not only increases our understanding of seventeenth-century England but also advances the study of subjects of interest to cultural critics of all historical periods: genre and canon, the interplay of institution and imagination, and the symbols of power. Contributors: Barbara K. Lewalski Michael McKeon Earl Miner David Norbrook Annabel Patterson J. G. A. Pocock Pocock Mary Ann Radzinowicz Kevin Sharpe Blair Worden Steven N. Zwicker This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Author : Charles H. Firth
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497863171

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Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England by Charles H. Firth Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000870275

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A Nation of Change and Novelty by Christopher Hill Pdf

A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century, examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive event in English and European history. It emphasises the historical significance of the English Revolution, exploring not only its causes but also its long term consequences, basing both in a broad social context and viewing it as a necessary condition of England’s having nurtured the first Industrial Revolution.

Author : Diane Purkiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139445993

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Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War by Diane Purkiss Pdf

In this innovative study, Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by focusing on ideas of masculinity, rather than on the role of women, which has hitherto received more attention. Historians have tended to emphasise a model of human action in the Civil War based on the idea of the human self as rational animal. Purkiss reveals the irrational ideological forces governing the way seventeenth-century writers understood the state, the monarchy, the battlefield and the epic hero in relation to contested contemporary ideas of masculinity. She analyses the writings of Marvell, Waller, Herrick and the Caroline elegists, as well as in newsbooks and pamphlets, and pays particular attention to Milton's complex responses to the dilemmas of male identity. This study will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century literature as well as those working in intellectual history and the history of gender.

Author : Thomas Healy,Jonathan Sawday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521370820

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Literature and the English Civil War by Thomas Healy,Jonathan Sawday Pdf

This book charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context from 1640-1660. Essays in the volume focus on issues of ideology and genre; the politics of the masque; lyric and devotional poetry; women's writings; attitudes towards Ireland; colonialism; madness and division; and individual writers such as Hobbes, Marvell and Milton.

Author : Edward Holberton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199544585

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Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate by Edward Holberton Pdf

The Cromwellian Protectorate was a period of innovation in poetry and drama, as well as constitutional debate. This new account of the period focuses on key cultural institutions - Parliament, an embassy to Sweden, Oxford University, Cromwell's state funeral - to examine this poetry's relationship with a culture in transformation and crisis. Edward Holberton shows that the Protectorate's instabilities helped to generate lively and innovative poetry. Protectorate verse explores the fault-lines of a culture which ceaselessly contested the authority of its own institutions, including the office of Protector itself. Poetry by Andrew Marvell, Edmund Waller, William Davenant, and John Dryden, contributed to a vibrant poetic culture which embraced diverse forms and occasions: masques for the weddings of Cromwell's daughters, diplomatic poems to Queen Christina of Sweden, naval victories, civic pageants, and university anthologies in celebration of a peace treaty. Many of these texts prove difficult to align with established ideas of the political and cultural contests of the age, because they become entangled with cultural institutions which could no longer be taken for granted, and were in many cases transforming rapidly, with far-reaching historical consequences. Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate asks how poetry confronted questions that were complicated by institutional practices, how poets tried to square their wider cultural sympathies with their interests in a particular parliamentary or university crisis, and how changes in institutions afforded poets critical insights into their society's problems and its place in the world. The readings of this book challenge previous representations of Protectorate culture as a phase of conservative backsliding, or pragmatic compromise, under a quasi-monarchical order. Protectorate verse emerges as nuanced and vital writing, which looks beyond the personality of Oliver Cromwell to the tensions that shaped his power. Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate argues that it is precisely through being contingent and compromised that these poems achieve their vitality, and become so revealing.

Author : William Montgomerie Lamont,Sybil Oldfield
Publisher : London : Dent ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : UCSC:32106000306214

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Politics, Religion, and Literature in the Seventeenth Century by William Montgomerie Lamont,Sybil Oldfield Pdf

Author : Barry Coward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719043174

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The Cromwellian Protectorate by Barry Coward Pdf

The Cromwellian Protectorate examines the nature of the first regime ever to have had effective control of the British Isles and the impact that it had on England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and on Britain’s international reputation. Few previous studies of the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell and his son, Richard, have given sufficient emphasis to its achievements. Instead they have characterized it either as "a military dictatorship" or a reactionary regime that after the revolutionary events of 1649 put Britain on a road that led inevitably to the restoration of the monarchy. This book presents an alternative view of the Cromwellian Protectorate.

Author : Helmer J. Helmers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107087613

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The Royalist Republic by Helmer J. Helmers Pdf

This book traces the impact of the English Civil Wars and the resulting support for the royalist cause in the Dutch Republic.

Author : Robert Appelbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139432863

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Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England by Robert Appelbaum Pdf

Hundreds of writers in the English-speaking world of the seventeenth-century imagined alternative ideal societies. Sometimes they did so by exploring fanciful territories, such as the world in the moon or the nations of the Antipodes; but sometimes they composed serious disquisitions about the here and now, proposing how England or its nascent colonies could be conceived of as an 'Oceana,' or a New Jerusalem. This book provides a comprehensive view of the operations of the utopian imagination in literature from 1603 to the 1660s. Appealing to social theorists, literary critics, and political and cultural historians, this volume revises prevailing notions of the languages of hope and social dreaming in the making of British modernity during a century of political and intellectual upheaval.

Author : Jon Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351125802

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Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540 by Jon Robinson Pdf

The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. The author examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage. He places selected works under close critical scrutiny to explore the symbiotic relationship that existed between court literature and important socio-political, economic and national contexts of the period 1500 to 1540. The first two chapters discuss the pervasive influence of patronage upon court literature through an analysis of the panegyric verse that surrounded the coronation of Henry VIII. The rhetorical strategies adopted by courtiers within their literary works, however, differed, depending on whether the writer was, at the time of writing the verse or drama, excluded or included from the environs of the court. The different, often elaborate rhetorical strategies are, through close readings of selected verse, delineated and discussed in chapter three on David Lyndsay and chapter four on Thomas Wyatt and Thomas Elyot.

Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199660889

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The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 by Lorna Hutson Pdf

"This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability. Accordingly, historians, critics and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive.They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire"--Book jacket.

Author : David Lee Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405143141

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Cromwell and the Interregnum by David Lee Smith Pdf

This book brings together eight of the most influential recent articles on Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum. Brings together seminal articles on Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum. Illuminates the personality of Cromwell and his achievements. Includes treatments of Ireland and Scotland alongside discussion of England. Editorial material introduces students to the historiographical issues.