Democracy and anti-democracy in early modern England, 1603-1689 / edited by Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuttica, Cesare, editor.

Peltonen, Markku, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Series:

History of European political and constitutional thought ; volume 1.

History of European political and constitutional thought ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state.

History.

Citizenship.

Civil society.

Democracy.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy--England--History--17th century.

Civil society--England--History--17th century.

Citizenship--England--History--17th century.

Church and state--England--History--17th century.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019].

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This cross-disciplinary collection of essays examines - for the first time and in detail - the variegated notions of democracy put forward in seventeenth-century England. It thus shows that democracy was widely explored and debated at the time; that anti-democratic currents and themes have a long history; that the seventeenth century is the first period in English history where we nonetheless find positive views of democracy; and that whether early-modern writers criticised or advocated it, these discussions were important for the subsequent development of the concept and practice 'democracy'. By offering a new historical account of such development, the book provides an innovative exploration of an important but overlooked topic whose relevance is all the more considerable in today's political debates, civic conversation, academic arguments and media talk. Contributors include Camilla Boisen, Alan Cromartie, Cesare Cuttica, Hannah Dawson, Martin Dzelzainis, Rachel Foxley, Matthew Growhoski, Rachel Hammersley, Peter Lake, Gaby Mahlberg, Markku Peltonen, Edward Vallance, and John West.

Contents:

Introduction : 'Gone missing' : democracy and anti-democracy in seventeenth-century England / Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen

Imagining citizenship in the Levellers and Milton / Rachel Foxley

Democracy, toleration, and the interests of the people / Alan Cromartie

'All government is in the people, from the people, and for the people' : democracy in the English Revolution / Markku Peltonen

The place of democracy in late Stuart England / Hannah Dawson

'A most dangerous rudeness' : anti-populism and the literary justification of absolutism in the fiction of John Barclay (1582-1621) / Matthew Growhoski

The spectre haunting early seventeenth-century England (ca. 1603-1649) : democracy at its worst / Cesare Cuttica

Anti-puritanism as political fiscourse : the Laudian critique of Puritan 'popularity' / Peter Lake

Presbyterians, republicans, and democracy in church and state, c.1570-1660 / Rachel Hammersley

Poetry, the passions, and anti-democracy in later Stuart England / John West

Democracy and anti-democracy : the Roger Williams and John Cotton debate revisited / Camilla Boisen

'The vulgar only scap'd who stood without' : Milton and the politics of exclusion / Martin Dzelzainis

A democratic culture? : women, citizenship and subscriptional texts in early modern England / Edward Vallance

The parliament of women and the restoration crisis / Gaby Mahlberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Democracy and anti-democracy in early modern England, 1603-1689.

ISBN:

9789004406629

900440662X

Publisher Number:

99983673347

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Restricted for use by site license.