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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Achinstein, Sharon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Milton, John, > 1608-1674.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Political and social views.
Revolutionary literature, English.
Politics and literature.
Political and social views.
Literature and history.
Books and reading.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Litterature revolutionnaire anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Litterature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Politique et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Books and reading > England > History > 17th century.
Revolutionary literature, English > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Great Britain.
England.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1642-1660 (Revolution puritaine) > Tracts.
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Pamphlets.
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Literature and the revolution.
Pamphlets.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (344 pages).
ISBN:9781400863907

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