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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784428903321

Autore

Chakravarty Prasanta

Titolo

"Like parchment in the fire" : literature and radicalism in the English civil war / / Prasanta Chakravarty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-135-51119-5

1-135-51112-8

1-281-09458-7

9786611094584

0-203-96002-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Disciplina

820.9358

Soggetti

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

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.