Format:
1 Online-Ressource (239 pages)
ISBN:
9781409455684
Content:
Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to bring these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history approaches to English republicanism, including both literary culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political research
Content:
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 1650s -- 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 1650s 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
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409455677
Additional Edition:
Print version Wiemann, Dirk Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism Farnham : Taylor & Francis,c2014 ISBN 9781409455677
Language:
English
