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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuttica, Cesare, editor.

Peltonen, Markku, editor.

Series:

History of European Political and Constitutional Thought ; 1.

History of European Political and Constitutional Thought ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

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

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

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2019.

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:

Front Matter

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Conventions

Notes on Contributors

‘Gone Missing’: Democracy and Anti-democracy in Seventeenth-Century England / Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen

Democracy and the People: Citizenship, Representation and the Commonwealth

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

Democracy and the World-Turned-Upside-Down: Religion, Emotions and Polemical Fire

‘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 Discourse; the Laudian Critique of Puritan ‘Popularity’ / Peter Lake

Presbyterians, Republicans, and Democracy in Church and State, ca. 1570–1660 / Rachel Hammersley

Poetry, the Passions, and Anti-democracy in Later Stuart England / John West

Democracy and the Other: Slaves, Natives and Women

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

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-40662-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004406629 DOI