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Author : Arthur Leslie Morton
Release : 1970
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The World of the Ranters by : Arthur Leslie Morton
Download or read book The World of the Ranters written by Arthur Leslie Morton. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. L. Morton
Release : 1979
Genre : Christianity and politics
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Book Synopsis The World of the Ranters by : A. L. Morton
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Author : Nigel Smith
Release : 2014-04-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Collection of Ranter Writings by : Nigel Smith
Download or read book A Collection of Ranter Writings written by Nigel Smith. This book was released on 2014-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ranters - like the Levellers and the Diggers - were a group of religious libertarians who flourished during the English Civil War (1642–1651), a period of social and religious turmoil which saw, in the words of Christopher Hill, "the world turned upside down." This particular collection is the most notable attempt to anthologize the key Ranter writings - bringing together some remarkable, visionary and unforgettable texts. The subjects range from the limits to pleasure and divine right, to social justice and collective action. As literature they are also remarkable, and have inspired generations of English-language writers and thinkers. As an example of radical theology, the Ranters have intrigued and captivated generations of scholars and philosophers. This collection will be of great interest to historians, philosophers and all those trying to understand past radical traditions.
Author : James Colin Davis
Release : 2002-05-09
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Fear, Myth and History by : James Colin Davis
Download or read book Fear, Myth and History written by James Colin Davis. This book was released on 2002-05-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that there was no Ranter group or movement: that the Ranters did not exist.
Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Release : 2012-11-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution by : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution written by Laura Lunger Knoppers. This book was released on 2012-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an unprecedented outpouring of texts, including new and transformed literary genres and techniques. The Handbook provides up-to-date scholarship on current issues as well as historical information, textual analysis, and bibliographical tools to help readers understand and appreciate the bold and indeed revolutionary character of writing in mid-seventeenth-century England. The volume is innovative in its attention to the literary and aesthetic aspects of a wide range of political and religious writing, as well as in its demonstration of how literary texts register the political pressures of their time. Opening with essential contextual chapters on religion, politics, society, and culture, the largely chronological subsequent chapters analyse particular voices, texts, and genres as they respond to revolutionary events. Attention is given to aesthetic qualities, as well as to bold political and religious ideas, in such writers as James Harrington, Marchamont Nedham, Thomas Hobbes, Gerrard Winstanley, John Lilburne, and Abiezer Coppe. At the same time, the revolutionary political context sheds new light on such well-known literary writers as John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, William Davenant, John Dryden, Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish, and John Bunyan. Overall, the volume provides an indispensable guide to the innovative and exciting texts of the English Revolution and reevaluates its long-term cultural impact.
