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Milton and the Revolutionary Reader
Sharon Achinstein
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Description for Milton and the Revolutionary Reader
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
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 in the form and content of political debate. ... Read more
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 in the form and content of political debate. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691604572
SKU
V9780691604572
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Reviews for Milton and the Revolutionary Reader
"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
Modern Language Review