James Holstun State University of New York, Buffalo
The English Revolution of 1642-60 produced an explosion of stylistically and ideologically diverse pamphlet literature. The essays collected here focus on the prose of this new revolutionary era, and the new public sphere it helped to create. They cover a wide range of topics including the Royalist attack on the Sectarian Babel and the street theatre of the Ranters.
Notes on Contributors; Introduction; James Holstun; The Politics of Babel in the English Revolution; Sharon Achinstein; Restyling the King: Clarendon Writes Charles I; Joan E. Hartman; The Ranters and the Limits of Language; Byron Nelson; Roger Williams: Bible Politics and Bible Art; Keith W. F. Stavely; "The, UnCivill-Sisterhood of Oranges and Lemons”: Female Petitioners and Demonstrators, 1642–53; Ann Marie McEntee; Female Preachers and Male Wives: Gender and Authority in Civil War England; Rachel Trubowitz; "Adam, the Father of all Flesh”: Porno-Political Rhetoric and Political Theory in and After the English Civil War; Susan Wiseman; Rational Hunger: Gerrard Winstanley´s Hortus Inconclusus; James Holstun; "Sages and patriots that being dead do yet speak to us”: Readings of the English Revolution in the Late Eighteenth Century; Perer J. Kitson;
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The English Revolution of 1642-60 produced an explosion of stylistically and ideologically diverse pamphlet literature. The essays collected here focus on the prose of this new revolutionary era, and the new public sphere it helped to create.
