"Like parchment in the fire" : literature and radicalism in the English civil war / Prasanta Chakravarty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chakravarty, Prasanta.

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature.

History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Literature and the war.

Literature and history--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Literature and history.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.

Intellectual life.

Radicalism in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 212 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Contents:

Radicalism from the center : the Republican moments of John Milton

Natural law as a radical weapon : John Warr, the Levellers and John Locke

The universal in the local : Digger radicalism revisited

Turning the world upside down and the limits of liberalism : the delayed radicalism of the Ranters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index.

ISBN:

0415977185

OCLC:

64442882

Publisher Number:

9780415977180