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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 Hobbes, John Lilburne, John Cleveland, and William Pr



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"This is an exciting study that all readers of Milton, at whatever level of competence will benefit from reading ... the value of this book is its opening up of Milton's later poetry as a proper aspect of the cultural history of the period."--Modern Language Review

Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TextsIntroduction3Ch. 1Revolution in Print: Lilburne's Jury, Areopagitica, and the Conscientious Public27Ch. 2Royalist Reactions: John Cleveland, Babel, and the Divine Right of Language71Ch. 3Debate and the Drama of Politics in the Public Sphere102Ch. 4Reading in the Revolution: Eikonoklastes and the Battle of Perspectives136Ch. 5Milton and the Fit Reader: Paradise Lost and the Parliament of Hell177Conclusion224Notes229Index267

Milton and the Revolutionary Reader

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691604572, 978-0691604572
      ISBN10: 0691604576
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 Pr



      Trade Review
      "This is an exciting study that all readers of Milton, at whatever level of competence will benefit from reading ... the value of this book is its opening up of Milton's later poetry as a proper aspect of the cultural history of the period."--Modern Language Review

      Table of Contents
      List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TextsIntroduction3Ch. 1Revolution in Print: Lilburne's Jury, Areopagitica, and the Conscientious Public27Ch. 2Royalist Reactions: John Cleveland, Babel, and the Divine Right of Language71Ch. 3Debate and the Drama of Politics in the Public Sphere102Ch. 4Reading in the Revolution: Eikonoklastes and the Battle of Perspectives136Ch. 5Milton and the Fit Reader: Paradise Lost and the Parliament of Hell177Conclusion224Notes229Index267

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