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Words at War: The Contested Language of the English Civil War(261 Proceedings of the British Academy)

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The English Civil War was not simply a conflict between two opposing, unstable, complicated alliances of various factions, but a war of words. Supporters of the King and allies of Parliament and the New Model Army clashed over ideals, ideas, and concepts as they each sought to impose their understanding of history and visions of the future, realizing that victory could only be secured by establishing a political and cultural language that would guide and direct those who used it. Accordingly, the Civil War witnessed vociferous arguments over many key English words central to life and thought in the seventeenth century, and often up to the present day. Words at War seeks to bring together scholars of literature, history, religion, and philosophy to analyse the ways in which key terms were deployed and debated in the Civil War and Commonwealth. In doing so it refocuses attention on ideas and concepts that shaped the modern world well beyond the bloody conflict on the battlefield.



Table 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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198914402
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Contested Language of the English Civil War
  • ISBN-10: 0198914407
  • Publisher Date: 29 Feb 2024
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: 261 Proceedings of the British Academy


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