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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778345903321

Autore

Worden Blair

Titolo

Literature and politics in Cromwellian England [[electronic resource] ] : John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham / / Blair Worden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-15033-9

9786611150334

0-19-152820-X

1-4356-1811-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (475 p.)

Disciplina

821/.4

Soggetti

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

Great Britain History Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660

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

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Nedham; 2. Milton and Nedham; 3. Marvell and Nedham; 4. Marvell in 1650; 5. Marvell and the Ambassadors; 6. Marvell and the First Anniversary; 7. Milton and the Civil Wars; 8. Milton and the New Order; 9. Milton in Journalism; 10. Milton and the Commonwealth; 11. Milton and Cromwell; 12. Milton's Second Defence; 13. Milton and the Protectorate; 14. Milton and the Good Old Cause; 15. Milton and Samson Agonistes; 16. Milton and the Fall of England; Appendix A: Marvell and the Embassy of 1651

Appendix B: Milton and Cromwell's AdvisersAppendix C: The Composition of Milton's History of Britain; List of Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Here is a new approach to the historical study of literature. A leading historian of the English civil wars looks at the writings of the two great poets of the time. John Milton and Andrew Marvell, and relates them as never before to the dramatic developments which brought the execution of King Charles and the rise of Oliver Cromwell. - ;In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs



the political contexts within which Milto