Republican language. -- Harrington and the oligarchs: Milton, Vane and Stubbe / Martin Dzelzainis -- Anti-republican cries under Cromwell: the vehement attacks of Robert Filmer against republican practice and republican theory in the early 1650s / Cesare Cuttica -- Language and content: the political thought of Algernon Sidney between republicanism and enlightenment / Günther Lottes -- Republican culture: literary and political culture. -- The prose romance of the 1650s as a context for Oceana / J.C. Davis -- Performing republics: negotiations of political discourse in restoration comedies / Anette Pankratz -- The fatal contagiousness of French republicanism: Edmund Burke and the body politic / Gerold Sedlmayr -- Harrington, petitioning and theáconstruction of public opinion / Edward Vallance -- Republican religion. -- "None can love freedom heartily, but good men": Milton's religious republicanism / Dirk Vanderbeke -- Religion in Harrington's political system: the central concepts and methods of Harrington's religious solutions / Luc Borot -- Mosaica respublica: Harrington, Toland and Moses / Justin Champion
Summary
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 r
