Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English RevolutionClarendon Press, 1987 - 280 pages "Books," wrote Milton, "are like dragon's teeth that spring up armed men." This study looks at some of the armed men that Milton, Marvell, Browne, and Butler sent off to fight, reading a series of 17th-century literary texts against the historical and political backdrop of the English Revolution. Confronting the formalist taboo on historical and political context, Wilding provides many challenging new readings, exploring issues of war and peace, of economic exploitation, social repression and the radical politics of the Levellers and Diggers. The issues that resulted in revolution three centuries ago are still relevant today, as Wilding persuasively demonstrates in a collection that will interest scholars and students of English literature, history, and political science. |
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... offers Adam instruction . Is Hudibras in contrast utterly negative ? In allowing Hudibras and Ralph no redeeming features and in introducing no acceptable new heroism , is Butler offering nothing ? In the public field he certainly offers ...
... offers Adam instruction . Is Hudibras in contrast utterly negative ? In allowing Hudibras and Ralph no redeeming features and in introducing no acceptable new heroism , is Butler offering nothing ? In the public field he certainly offers ...
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... offers his plan , which had , however , been devised beforehand by the monarch , Satan : Thus Beelzebub Pleaded his ... offer now ( Certain to be refused ) what erst they feared ; And so refused might in opinion stand His rivals ...
... offers his plan , which had , however , been devised beforehand by the monarch , Satan : Thus Beelzebub Pleaded his ... offer now ( Certain to be refused ) what erst they feared ; And so refused might in opinion stand His rivals ...
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... offers death , Christ offers life . Samson uses force and kills himself as well as his enemies ; Christ abjures force and saves mankind ; he takes on death for himself in order that others will be saved from death and brought into ...
... offers death , Christ offers life . Samson uses force and kills himself as well as his enemies ; Christ abjures force and saves mankind ; he takes on death for himself in order that others will be saved from death and brought into ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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