| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Literature in History
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Studies in Italian culture--Literature in history.
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| Summary |
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading, with over 22,000 pamphlets exploding from the presses between 1640 and 1661. What this phenomenon meant to the political life of the nation is the subject of Sharon Achinsteins book. Considering a wide range of writers, from John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Lilburne, John Cleveland, and William Prynne to a host of anonymous scribblers of every political stripe, Achinstein shows how the unprecedented outpouring of opinion in mid-seventeenth-century England created a new class of activist readers and thus helped to bring about a revolution i. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
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Political and social views. |
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Revolutionary literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Revolutionary literature, English. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Achinstein, Sharon. Milton and the Revolutionary Reader. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
| ISBN |
9781400863907 (electronic book) |
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1400863902 (electronic book) |
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1322026823 (electronic book) |
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9781322026824 (electronic book) |
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