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The English Civil War was a war of words as well as a military conflict, with supporters of the king and parliament arguing over the meaning of God, liberty, nature, people, law, and other central concepts.
Words at War explores these arguments, which continue to shape the political and cultural landscape of the modern world.
List of contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: God and Providence
- 1: KATRIN ETTENHUBER: God in Scripture Study Aids
- 2: VICTORIA SILVER: God in Hobbes
- 3: MATTHEW AUGUSTINE: Providence in Browne
- 4: N. H. KEEBLE: Providence in the Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
- Part II: Freedom and Servitude
- 5: N. H. KEEBLE: Freedom in Early Quaker Tracts
- 6: PHIL WITHINGTON: Slavery in John Taylor
- 7: NICHOLAS MCDOWELL: Freedom in the Cavalier Poets
- Part III: Nature and Law
- 8: ANDREW HADFIELD: Nature and Natural Law in Radical Writers
- 9: PAUL HAMMOND: Law in Clarendon
- 10: GILLIAN WRIGHT: Nature in Cowley
- 11: ANDREW HADFIELD: Nature in Lovelace
- Part IV: King and People
- 12: NIALL ALLSOPP: The People in Marvell and Cavendish
- 13: ALICE HUNT: The King in the Parliamentary Debates of 1657
- 14: RUTH CONNOLLY: The People in Royalist Women's Writing
- 15: JACK AVERY: The King and the People in the Newsbooks
- Part V: Conscience and Virtue
- 16: STEWART MOTTRAM: Conscience in Marvell
- 17: ELIZABETH SAUER: Conscience and Nation in Milton 1640-1660
- 18: CHRISTOPHER TILMOUTH: Virtue and Defeat in Davenant and Cowley
- 19: PAUL HAMMOND: Virtue in Milton
- Part VI: Legacy
- 20: BLAIR WORDEN: Checks and Balances: The Birth of a Vocabulary
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy and the English Association. His books include
Shakespeare and Republicanism;
Edmund Spenser: A Life;
Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance;
Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution;
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion; and
Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing.
Paul Hammond is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include
Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome;
Milton and the People;
Milton's Complex Words: Essays on the Conceptual Structure of 'Paradise Lost'; and
Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire. He is co-editor of
The Poems of John Dryden, Five Volumes and editor-in-chief of a new Longman Annotated English Poets edition of
The Complete Poems of John Milton.
Summary
The English Civil War was a war of words as well as a military conflict, with supporters of the king and parliament arguing over the meaning of God, liberty, nature, people, law, and other central concepts. Words at War explores these arguments, which continue to shape the political and cultural landscape of the modern world.
