A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the Civil Wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions of political community. They used family metaphors to debate the limits of political authority, rethink gender roles, and imagine community in a period of social and political upheaval. While critical attention has focused on how the common analogy linking father and king, family and state, bolstered royal and paternal claims to authority and obedience, its meaning was in fact intensely contested. In this wide-ranging study, Su Fang Ng analyses the language and metaphors used to describe the relationship between politics and the family in both literary and political writings and offers a fresh perspective on how seventeenth-century literature reflected as well as influenced political thought.
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"Reading across the boundaries of political affiliation and genre, this book brilliantly elucidates the variable and hotly-contested nature of parallels between family and state in this turbulent period. Literature and the Politics of Family will prove invaluable to scholars of seventeenth-century literature, political culture, and gender politics."
-Catherine Gray, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Renaissance Quarterly
-Catherine Gray, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Renaissance Quarterly
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In this wide-ranging study, Su Fang Ng analyses the language and metaphors used to describe the relationship between politics and the family in both literary and political writings and offers a fresh perspective on how seventeenth-century literature reflected as well as influenced political thought.
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antiprelatical tracts, regicide tracts, paternal state, royalist satires, marriage discipline, femme forte, family tropes, divorce tracts, pater patriae, family metaphors, family analogy, familial language, natural law argument, nursing father, body analogy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Blazing World, Paradise Lost, Henrietta Maria, New York, Clarendon Press, Eikon Basilike, Margaret Fell, English Revolution, George Fox, Margaret Cavendish, Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, New Haven, Old Testament, Thomas Hobbes, Trew Law, Yale University Press, Basilicon Doron, Inigo Jones, University of California Press, Harvard University Press, Quentin Skinner, Cornell University Press, Complete Prose Works New!
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- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 27 pages
- Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Margaret Cavendish on 5 pages
- The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by John Greville Agard Pocock on page 52, and page 71
- History of England by Lacey B. Smith in Front Matter, and page 196
- The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman on page 78, and page 175
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