The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England The Wonders of the Lord
August 2019
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Book
The voices of non-conformity are brought to the fore in this new exploration of late seventeenth-century politics, religion and literature.
Dissenters, Religious
The Satire of Dissent
January 2019
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
The Quakers and Politics, 1660-1689
January 2018
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Chapter
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The Quakers, 1656-1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community
Revolutionary England, C.1630-c.1660 Essays for Clive Holmes
December 2016
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Edited book
Revolutionary England presents a series of cutting-edge interventions by established and rising authorities in the field. These are intended to honour one of the most respected scholars of early modern England.
Polemic: Language as violence in medieval and early modern discourse
January 2015
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Edited book
If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then ‘polemic’ is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevitable result of religious controversy and the rise of print media. Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on medieval as well as early modern culture in order to challenge stubborn assumptions that medieval culture was homogenous and characterized by consensus; and that literary discourse is by nature ‘eirenic’. Instead, the volume shows more clearly the continuities and discontinuities, especially how medieval discourse on the sins of the tongue continued into early modern discussion; how popular and influential medieval genres such as sermons and hagiography dealt with potentially heterodox positions; and the role of literary, especially fictional, debate in developing modes of articulating discord, as well as demonstrating polemic in action in political and ecclesiastical debate. Within this historical context, the position of early modern debates as part of a more general culture of articulating discord becomes more clearly visible. The structure of the volume moves from an internal textual focus, where the nature of polemic can be debated, through a middle section where these concerns are also played out in social practice, to a more historical group investigating applied polemic. In this way a more nuanced view is provided of the meaning, role, and effect of ‘polemic’ both broadly across time and space, and more narrowly within specific circumstances.
Dissent and the Restoration Church of England
January 2012
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The Later Stuart Church, 1660-1714
English nonconformist poetry
January 2012
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Book
Shrews in Pamphlets and Plays’
June 2010
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Chapter
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Gender and power in shrew-taming narratives, 1500-1700
Including essays by a range of leading scholars, this is the first collection to address the historical interrelationships of the various dramatic versions of the popular Taming of the Shrew written and performed in the late-sixteenth and ...
Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture
January 2010
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Book
This essential volume offers students a number of highly focused chapters on key themes in Restoration history.
‘“A Prophet and a Poet Both!”: Nonconformist Culture and the Literary Afterlives of Robert Wild’