Democracy and anti-democracy in early modern England, 1603-1689. / / Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen.

• Superior document: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought ; 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Cuttica, Cesare,; Peltonen, Markku,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

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...

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.