Milton and the Revolutionary Reader
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Milton and the Revolutionary Reader
By (Author) Sharon Achinstein
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
821.4
Physical Properties
Paperback
290
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
397g
Description
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading, with over 22,000 pamphlets exploding from the presses between 1640 and 1661. What this phenomenon meant to the political life of the nation is the subject of Sharon Achinsteins book. Considering a wide range of writers, from John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Lilburne, John Cleveland, and William Pr
Reviews
"This is an exciting study that all readers of Milton, at whatever level of competence will benefit from reading ... the value of this book is its opening up of Milton's later poetry as a proper aspect of the cultural history of the period."--Modern Language Review
