Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution

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Clarendon Press, 1987 - 280 pages
"Books," wrote Milton, "are like dragon's teeth that spring up armed men." This study looks at some of the armed men that Milton, Marvell, Browne, and Butler sent off to fight, reading a series of 17th-century literary texts against the historical and political backdrop of the English
Revolution. Confronting the formalist taboo on historical and political context, Wilding provides many challenging new readings, exploring issues of war and peace, of economic exploitation, social repression and the radical politics of the Levellers and Diggers. The issues that resulted in
revolution three centuries ago are still relevant today, as Wilding persuasively demonstrates in a collection that will interest scholars and students of English literature, history, and political science.

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Religio Medici in the English Revolution
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À propos de l'auteur (1987)

Michael Wilding is the author of Wild Bleak Bohemia, which won the $10,000 Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal 2015 from The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University.

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TitreDragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution
AuteurMichael Wilding
ÉditeurClarendon Press, 1987
Original provenant del'Université du Michigan
Numérisé29 févr. 2008
ISBN0198128819, 9780198128816
Longueur280 pages
  
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