Milton and the Revolutionary Reader.

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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 Hob...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Achinstein, Sharon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Studies in Italian culture--Literature in history.
Temas:
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Political and social views.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674.
1600-1699
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Revolutionary literature, English > History and criticism.
Books and reading > England > History > 17th century.
Politique et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Littérature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Littérature révolutionnaire anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Books and reading.
Literature and history.
Political and social views.
Politics and literature.
Revolutionary literature, English.
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Literature and the revolution.
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Pamphlets.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1642-1660 (Révolution puritaine) > Tracts.
England.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Pamphlets.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (289 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and index.
ISBN:9781400863907
1400863902
1322026823
9781322026824

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