Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: strange bedfellows -- patriarchalism and revolutionary thought; PART I Revolutionary debates; CHAPTER 1 Father-kings and Amazon queens; CHAPTER 2 Milton's band of brothers; CHAPTER 3 Hobbes and the absent family; CHAPTER 4 Cromwellian fatherhood and its discontents; PART II Restoration imaginings; Interchapter: revolutionary legacies; CHAPTER 5 Execrable sons and second Adams: family politics in Paradise Lost; CHAPTER 6 Marriage and monarchy: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World and the fictions of queenly rule.
Summary
An insightful study of how metaphors of the family were used in seventeenth-century literary and political rhetoric.
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