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Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism / edited by Dirk Wiemann and Gaby Mahlberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Republicanism--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Republicanism.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Political culture--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Political culture.
- Religion and politics--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Religion and politics.
- Republicanism in literature.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. The contributors to this volume have brought these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism; Part I Republican Language; 1 Harrington and the Oligarchs: Milton, Vane, and Stubbe; 2 Anti-republican Cries under Cromwell: The Vehement Attacks of Robert Filmer against Republican Practice and Republican Theory in the Early 1650's; 3 Language and Content: The Political Thought of Algernon Sidney between Republicanism and Enlightenment; Part II Republican Culture: Literary and Political Culture; 4 The Prose Romance of the 1650's as a Context for Oceana
- 5 Performing Republics: Negotiations of Political Discourse in Restoration Comedies 6 The Fatal Contagiousness of French Republicanism: Edmund Burke and the Body Politic; 7 Harrington, Petitioning, and the Construction of Public Opinion; Part III Republican Religion; 8 'None can love freedom heartily, but good men': Milton's Religious Republicanism; 9 Religion in Harrington's Political System: The Central Concepts and Methods of Harrington's Religious Solutions; 10 Mosaica respublica: Harrington, Toland, and Moses; Postscript: Republicanism: Theory, Culture, and History; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-60019-6
- 1-317-08176-5
- 1-317-08175-7
- 1-4094-5568-8
- 9781315600192
- OCLC:
- 870946634
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