| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Literature in History |
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Studies in Italian culture--Literature in history.
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| Contents |
Pages:1 to 25 -- Pages:26 to 50 -- Pages:51 to 75 -- Pages:76 to 100 -- Pages:101 to 125 -- Pages:126 to 150 -- Pages:151 to 175 -- Pages:176 to 200 -- Pages:201 to 225 -- Pages:226 to 250 -- Pages:251 to 275 -- Pages:276 to 289 |
| Summary |
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading, with over 22,000 pamphlets exploding from the presses between 1640 and 1661. What this phenomenon meant to the political life of the nation is the subject of Sharon Achinsteins book. Considering a wide range of writers, from John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Lilburne, John Cleveland, and William Prynne to a host of anonymous scribblers of every political stripe, Achinstein shows how the unprecedented outpouring of opinion in mid-seventeenth-century England created a new class of activist readers and thus helped to bring about a revolution i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast |
| Subject |
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Revolutionary literature, English -- History and criticism
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Books and reading
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Literature and history
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Political and social views
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Politics and literature
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Revolutionary literature, English
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Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Literature and the revolution
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Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Pamphlets
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| Subject |
England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Pamphlets
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400863907 |
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1400863902 |
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1322026823 |
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9781322026824 |
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