Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War (Paperback)

Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to selections from non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. This volume is concerned with radical prose from the period 1642-60 and comprises political pamphlets covering the years of the Civil War and the Commonwealth. All the pamphlets are revolutionary in varying degrees: two by Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and The Readie and the Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth; one each by the three Leveller leaders, Lilburne, Walwyn and Overton; one by the Digger, Winstanley and one by the Republican, Harrington. There is a substantial introduction to the whole volume in which the editors offer a historical survey of the period, consider the intellectual and political context of the pamphlets, sketch in significant biographical details and examine the various styles which the writers employ. This book will prove to be an indispensable tool for all serious students of seventeenth-century literature, history and political theory.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge English Prose Texts
Release date:	April 1983
First published:	1983
Editors:	Howard Erskine-Hill • Graham Storey
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-28670-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-521-28670-0
Barcode:	9780521286701

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