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Democracy and anti-democracy in early modern England, 1603-1689 /

This cross-disciplinary collection of essays examines - for the first time and in detail - the variegated notions of democracy put forward in seventeenth-century England. It thus shows that democracy was widely explored and debated at the time; that anti-democratic currents and themes have a long hi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cuttica, Cesare (Editor ), Peltonen, Markku (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Colección:History of European political and constitutional thought ; v. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : 'Gone missing' : democracy and anti-democracy in seventeenth-century England / Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen
  • Imagining citizenship in the Levellers and Milton / Rachel Foxley
  • Democracy, toleration, and the interests of the people / Alan Cromartie
  • 'All government is in the people, from the people, and for the people' : democracy in the English Revolution / Markku Peltonen
  • The place of democracy in late Stuart England / Hannah Dawson
  • 'A most dangerous rudeness' : anti-populism and the literary justification of absolutism in the fiction of John Barclay (1582-1621) / Matthew Growhoski
  • The spectre haunting early seventeenth-century England (ca. 1603-1649) : democracy at its worst / Cesare Cuttica
  • Anti-puritanism as political fiscourse : the Laudian critique of Puritan 'popularity' / Peter Lake
  • Presbyterians, republicans, and democracy in church and state, c.1570-1660 / Rachel Hammersley
  • Poetry, the passions, and anti-democracy in later Stuart England / John West
  • Democracy and anti-democracy : the Roger Williams and John Cotton debate revisited / Camilla Boisen
  • 'The vulgar only scap'd who stood without' : Milton and the politics of exclusion / Martin Dzelzainis
  • A democratic culture? : women, citizenship and subscriptional texts in early modern England / Edward Vallance
  • The parliament of women and the restoration crisis / Gaby Mahlberg.