Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century EnglandCambridge University Press, 25 ene 2007 A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the Civil Wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions of political community. They used family metaphors to debate the limits of political authority, rethink gender roles, and imagine community in a period of social and political upheaval. While critical attention has focused on how the common analogy linking father and king, family and state, bolstered royal and paternal claims to authority and obedience, its meaning was in fact intensely contested. In this wide-ranging study, Su Fang Ng analyses the language and metaphors used to describe the relationship between politics and the family in both literary and political writings and offers a fresh perspective on how seventeenth-century literature reflected as well as influenced political thought. |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham absolute absolutist Adam analogy Anna argues argument authority becomes Blazing World body brother Cambridge University Press Cavaliers Cavendish Charles Christ Christian church civil claim Clarendon Press commonwealth court Cromwell Cromwell’s Culture Defence divine Early Modern Eikon Basilike Eikonoklastes emphasizes Empress England English family metaphors father father-king fatherhood female femme forte Filmer gender God’s Harrington Henrietta Maria hierarchy Hobbes Hobbes’s Ibid James James’s John John Milton king king’s kingdom kingship Leviathan London Lord Margaret Cavendish Margaret Fell marriage masques Milton monarchy mother natural law Newcastle obedience Oceana Oliver Oliver Cromwell Oliver's Olphaus Oxford Paradise Lost Parliament pater patriae paternal patriarchal patriarchalist poem political primogeniture prince Protectorate Quaker queen Quentin Skinner relation religion republican Restoration rhetoric Richard Richard Tuck role royal royalist rule Satan satires Seventeenth-Century Sexby sexual social soul sovereign sovereignty spirit Stuart subjects suggests Thomas Hobbes trope women younger
Pasajes populares
Página 94 - I authorize and give up my right of governing myself, to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him, and authorize all his actions in like manner.
Página 11 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Página 91 - For what is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings ; and the joints, but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as was intended by the artificer ? Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man.
Página 167 - The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide : They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way.
Página 91 - For by art is created that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth or State (in Latin Civitas) which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul...
Página 92 - ... that do the same in the body natural; the wealth and riches...
Página 174 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what way a man could devise to lose so much in so little time.
Página 38 - Instead of vizzards, their faces and arms up to the elbows were painted black ; which was disguise sufficient, for they were hard to be known ; but it became them nothing so well as their red and white ; and you cannot imagine a more ugly sight than a troop of leancheeked Moors.
Página 92 - ... reward and punishment, by which, fastened to the seat of the sovereignty, every joint and member is moved to perform his duty, are the nerves...
Página 158 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac ; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it and to thy seed ; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south ; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.