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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464388403321

Titolo

Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism / / edited by Dirk Wiemann and Gaby Mahlberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate Publishing Company, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-317-08176-5

1-317-08175-7

1-4094-5568-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WiemannDirk

MahlbergGaby

Disciplina

320.942/09032

Soggetti

Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 17th century

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

Political culture - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Religion and politics - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Republicanism in literature

Electronic books.

Great Britain Politics and government 1642-1660

Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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