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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... specific debts to published work are recorded in the notes , though my indebtedness to the work of my colleagues and predecessors in this area is obviously greater than to specific points . The Introduction 5.
... specific debts to published work are recorded in the notes , though my indebtedness to the work of my colleagues and predecessors in this area is obviously greater than to specific points . The Introduction 5.
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... specific : Soon as the potion works , their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods , is changed Into some brutish form of wolf , or bear , Or ounce , or tiger , hog , or bearded goat , All other parts remaining as they ...
... specific : Soon as the potion works , their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods , is changed Into some brutish form of wolf , or bear , Or ounce , or tiger , hog , or bearded goat , All other parts remaining as they ...
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... specific reference to this icono- clasm with its vocabulary of explicitly physical violence and its specific reference to the so breakable ' church window ' , which in 1643 became simply ' church ' : ' I should cutt off my arm , rather ...
... specific reference to this icono- clasm with its vocabulary of explicitly physical violence and its specific reference to the so breakable ' church window ' , which in 1643 became simply ' church ' : ' I should cutt off my arm , rather ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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