Democracy and anti-democracy in early modern England, 1603-1689. / / Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen.
This cross-disciplinary collection of essays examines – for the first time and in detail – the variegated notions of democracy put forward in seventeenth-century England. It thus shows that democracy was widely explored and debated at the time; that anti-democratic currents and themes have a long hi...
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Superior document: | History of European Political and Constitutional Thought ; 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2019. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of European Political and Constitutional Thought ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- Notes on Contributors
- ‘Gone Missing’: Democracy and Anti-democracy in Seventeenth-Century England / Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen
- Democracy and the People: Citizenship, Representation and the Commonwealth
- Imagining Citizenship in the Levellers and Milton / Rachel Foxley
- Democracy, Toleration, and the Interests of the People / Alan Cromartie
- ‘All Government is in the people, from the people, and for the people’: Democracy in the English Revolution / Markku Peltonen
- The Place of Democracy in Late Stuart England / Hannah Dawson
- Democracy and the World-Turned-Upside-Down: Religion, Emotions and Polemical Fire
- ‘A most dangerous rudeness’: Anti-populism and the Literary Justification of Absolutism in the Fiction of John Barclay (1582–1621) / Matthew Growhoski
- The Spectre Haunting Early Seventeenth-Century England (ca. 1603–1649): Democracy at Its Worst / Cesare Cuttica
- Anti-puritanism as Political Discourse; the Laudian Critique of Puritan ‘Popularity’ / Peter Lake
- Presbyterians, Republicans, and Democracy in Church and State, ca. 1570–1660 / Rachel Hammersley
- Poetry, the Passions, and Anti-democracy in Later Stuart England / John West
- Democracy and the Other: Slaves, Natives and Women
- Democracy and Anti-democracy: the Roger Williams and John Cotton Debate Revisited / Camilla Boisen
- ‘The vulgar only scap’d who stood without’: Milton and the Politics of Exclusion / Martin Dzelzainis
- A Democratic Culture? Women, Citizenship and Subscriptional Texts in Early Modern England / Edward Vallance
- The Parliament of Women and the Restoration Crisis / Gaby Mahlberg
- Back Matter
- Index.