This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton, Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries during these revolutionary decades. Loewenstein's portrait of a faction-riven, violent seventeenth-century revolutionary culture is an original and significant contribution to our understanding of these turbulent decades and their aftermath.
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"Loewenstein is a steady and lucid guide through the morass of revolutionary writings. His work on Milton is...original and exciting...There is a subtle and brilliant reading of Paradise Lost, which analyses the ambiguous, evil political strategies of Satan." Times Literary Supplement
"This valuable cross-disciplinary study offers an extended look at the various enthusiastic sects and personalities of the Interregnum in order to place Milton's work more securely in its historical context." Seventeenth-Century News
"Loewenstein does an extraordinary job." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"The Puritans were by no means all of one (narrow) mind--Milton was and remains a heretic in almost everyone's view--and the factionalism is clearly exposed here. If Israel today is not enough to make the point, you could read Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism to see that religion and politics are the strange bedfellows that Shakespeare perceived adversity produces." Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"Loewenstein offers a brilliant reading ...This book makes a number of important contributions to our understanding of radical Puritanism." H-Net Reviews Jan 2002
"...specialist will fin it a valuable addition tot he scholarship of this fascinating period in English literary history." Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"Representing Revolution skillfully unpacks the intricacies of mid-century radical literature, and offers riveting and original readings of Milton's major poems. The book is a scholarly masterwork, and is sure to become prominent in the canon of Milton criticism." Prose Studies
"This valuable cross-disciplinary study offers an extended look at the various enthusiastic sects and personalities of the Interregnum in order to place Milton's work more securely in its historical context." Seventeenth-Century News
"Loewenstein does an extraordinary job." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"The Puritans were by no means all of one (narrow) mind--Milton was and remains a heretic in almost everyone's view--and the factionalism is clearly exposed here. If Israel today is not enough to make the point, you could read Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism to see that religion and politics are the strange bedfellows that Shakespeare perceived adversity produces." Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"Loewenstein offers a brilliant reading ...This book makes a number of important contributions to our understanding of radical Puritanism." H-Net Reviews Jan 2002
"...specialist will fin it a valuable addition tot he scholarship of this fascinating period in English literary history." Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"Representing Revolution skillfully unpacks the intricacies of mid-century radical literature, and offers riveting and original readings of Milton's major poems. The book is a scholarly masterwork, and is sure to become prominent in the canon of Milton criticism." Prose Studies
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David Loewenstein's Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton, Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries during these revolutionary decades. Loewenstein's portrait of a faction-riven, violent seventeenth-century revolutionary culture is an original and significant contribution to our understanding of these turbulent decades and their aftermath.
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Among Milton's radical contemporaries perhaps no writer expressed greater conflict with the Revolution and its evolution in the 1640s and 1650s than did the flamboyant and fiery John Lilburne, leader of the Levellers during the Civil War and the Interregnum. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
millenarian saints, radical religious culture, radical religious writers, inward persuasive motions, double contradictory sense, ambivalent trends, equivocal politics, radical religious politics, sober liberty, radical saints, visionary prose, spiritual epic, rousing motions, millenarian language, mighty leveller, political equivocation, saintly show, scriptural myths, puritan politics, verbal equivocation, militant saint, polemical engagement, godly readers, radical religion, polemical prose Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, The Tenure, Fifth Monarchist, Samson Agonistes, House of Lords, Irish Rebellion, Old Testament, Edward Burrough, Lord Protector, Son of God, George Fox, House of Commons, King Charles, English Revolution, Long Parliament, Milton's Samson, New Model Army, Lord God, Milton's Heaven, Protectorate Parliament, William Dell, English Commonwealth, George Wither, Good Old Cause New!
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Among Milton's radical contemporaries perhaps no writer expressed greater conflict with the Revolution and its evolution in the 1640s and 1650s than did the flamboyant and fiery John Lilburne, leader of the Levellers during the Civil War and the Interregnum. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
millenarian saints, radical religious culture, radical religious writers, inward persuasive motions, double contradictory sense, ambivalent trends, equivocal politics, radical religious politics, sober liberty, radical saints, visionary prose, spiritual epic, rousing motions, millenarian language, mighty leveller, political equivocation, saintly show, scriptural myths, puritan politics, verbal equivocation, militant saint, polemical engagement, godly readers, radical religion, polemical prose Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, The Tenure, Fifth Monarchist, Samson Agonistes, House of Lords, Irish Rebellion, Old Testament, Edward Burrough, Lord Protector, Son of God, George Fox, House of Commons, King Charles, English Revolution, Long Parliament, Milton's Samson, New Model Army, Lord God, Milton's Heaven, Protectorate Parliament, William Dell, English Commonwealth, George Wither, Good Old Cause New!
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- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 52 pages
- Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (The Signet Classic Poetry Series) by John Milton on 43 pages
- Samson Agonistes by John Milton on 28 pages
- Fiery Flying Roll by Abiezer Coppe on 15 pages
- The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates by John Milton on 9 pages
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- The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Adam Kitzes in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660 (Oxford English Monographs) by Nicholas McDowell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The End of Learning: Milton and Education (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Thomas Festa in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Milton and Gender by Catherine Gimelli Martin on page 149
- Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe by Laura Lunger Knoppers in Back Matter
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