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Autore |
Chakravarty Prasanta |
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Titolo |
"Like parchment in the fire" : literature and radicalism in the English civil war / / Prasanta Chakravarty |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-51119-5 |
1-135-51112-8 |
1-281-09458-7 |
9786611094584 |
0-203-96002-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Radicalism in literature |
Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Literature and the war |
Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Radicalism from the Center: The Republican Moments of John Milton; Chapter Two. Natural Law as a Radical Weapon: John Warr, the Levellers and John Locke; Chapter Three. The Universal in the Local: Digger Radicalism Revisited; Chapter Four.Turning the World Upside Down and the Limits of Liberalism: The Delayed Radicalism of the Ranters; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Examines the literary, religious and political aspects of the radical movements and various sects. Featuring a chapter on John Milton, this book also addresses the legal problems that engaged the early modern radical reformers, the issue of radical religion as a negotiating tool and the limits of radical liberal thought. |
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