This book offers a fresh examination of key seventeenth-century writersnotably Andrew Marvell, Katherine Philips and John Miltonin the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and oppositional potential of the philosophical tradition of Stoicism. As a study of the rhetorical and philosophical bases of English neostoicism, this book sketches an important new map of political discourse in the civil war period.
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Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled
This book offers a fresh examination of key seventeenth-century writersnotably Andrew Marvell, Katherine Philips and John Miltonin the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and oppositional potential of the philosophical tradition of Stoicism. As a study of the rhetorical and philosophical bases of English neostoicism, this book sketches an important new map of political discourse in the civil war period.
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ISBN-13: | 9780521101141 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 02/12/2009 |
Pages: | 188 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
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