Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton War and Peace Reconciled |
|
| Author:
| Shifflett, Andrew |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-59203-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1998 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
|
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $103.00 |
Book Description:
|
This book offers a fresh examination of key seventeenth-century writers notably Andrew Marvell, Katherine Philips and John Milton in the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and oppositional potential of the philosophical tradition of Stoicism. As a study of the rhetorical and philosophical bases of English neostoicism, this book sketches an important new map of political discourse in the civil war period.
This book offers a fresh examination of key seventeenth-century writers notably Andrew Marvell, Katherine Philips and John Milton in the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and oppositional potential of the philosophical tradition of Stoicism. As a study of the rhetorical and philosophical bases of English neostoicism, this book sketches an important new map of political discourse in the civil war period.