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

• Pubblicazione: Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.942/09032
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Politics and government 1642-1660; Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century
• Altri autori: WiemannDirk MahlbergGaby
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism
• ISBN: 1-315-60019-6; 1-317-08176-5; 1-317-08175-7; 1-4094-5568-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789022303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II