Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-1660

Norbrook demonstrates too how consideration of Machiavelli' s Discourses in, for example, the work of the indefatigable George Wither or that of the arch-republican Henry Marten, continues a tradition of civic humanism which looks back to republican models in Livy and Cicero. Underpinning the t...

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Published inBunyan studies no. 10; p. 95
Main Author Watson, Alistair E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2001
Subjects
British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
English language
English literature
Poetry
Politics
Rhetoric
Wither, George (1588-1667)
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Summary:Norbrook demonstrates too how consideration of Machiavelli' s Discourses in, for example, the work of the indefatigable George Wither or that of the arch-republican Henry Marten, continues a tradition of civic humanism which looks back to republican models in Livy and Cicero. Underpinning the theoretical argument of the book is an exploitation of speech act theory as a 'reinvention of rhetoric' specifically appropriate to the public nature of the texts considered. Ground broken by Christopher Hill in Milton and the English Revolution (1977) is liberally irrigated by Norbrook's 'continuing stream of allusions to the Pharsalia" , yielding insights to which his preceding argument lends authority.
ISSN:0954-0970