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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450055603321

Autore

Loewenstein David

Titolo

Representing revolution in Milton and his contemporaries : religion, politics, and polemics in radical Puritanism / / David Loewenstein [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11894-8

1-280-15462-4

0-511-11824-4

0-511-01768-5

0-511-15381-3

0-511-30356-4

0-511-48369-4

0-511-04928-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 413 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.9/358

Soggetti

English literature - Puritan authors - History and criticism

Christianity and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century

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

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

Revolutionary literature, English - History and criticism

Radicalism - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Polemics - History - 17th century

Puritan movements in literature

Radicalism in literature

Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 Literature and the revolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; pt. I. Radical Puritanism and Polemical Responses. ; 1. Lilburne, Leveller polemic, and the ambiguities of the Revolution. ; 2. Gerrard Winstanley and the crisis of the Revolution. ; 3. Ranter and Fifth



Monarchist prophecies: the revolutionary visions of Abiezer Coppe and Anna Trapnel. ; 4. The War of the Lamb: the revolutionary discourse of George Fox and early Quakerism. ; 5. Marvell, the saints, and the Protectorate -- ; pt. II. Milton: Radical Puritan Politics, Polemics, and Poetry. ; 6. Milton, Antichristian revolts, and the English Revolution. ; 7. Radical Puritan politics and Satan's revolution in Paradise Lost. ; 8. The kingdom within: radical religion and politics in Paradise Regained.

Sommario/riassunto

David Loewenstein's Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton, Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries during these revolutionary decades. By examining a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writers - John Lilburne, Winstanley the Digger and Milton, amongst others - he reveals how radical Puritans struggled with the contradictions and ambiguities of the English Revolution and its political regimes. His portrait of a faction-riven, violent seventeenth-century revolutionary culture is an original and significant contribution to our understanding of these turbulent decades and their aftermath. By placing Milton's great poems in the context of the period's radical religious politics, it should be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars.