Table of Contents

Laura Lunger Knoppers: Introduction: Critical Framework and Issues
PART I: ENGLAND AT HOME AND IN THE WORLD
1: Nigel Smith: England, Europe, and the English Revolution
2: Eamon Darcy: Three Kingdoms
3: Carla Gardina Pestana: British Atlantic World
4: Glenn Burgess: Political Thought
5: John Coffey: Religion
6: Karen Edwards: Literature, Medicine, and Science
7: Jason McElligott: Licensing, censorship, and the book trade
8: Ann Hughes: Society and the Roles of Women
PART II: CIVIL WARS
9: Jason Peacey: News, Pamphlets, and Public Opinion
10: Stephen B. Dobranski: Principle and Politics in Milton s Areopagitica
11: Ann Baynes Coiro: The Personal Rule of Poets: Cavalier Poetry and the English Revolution
12: Helen Wilcox: Civil War letters and diaries and the rhetoric of experience
13: Nicholas McDowell: Marvell Among the Cavaliers
14: Rachel Foxley: The Levellers: John Lilburne, Richard Overton, and William Walwyn
PART III: REGICIDE AND REPUBLIC
15: Robert Wilcher: Eikon Basilike: The printing, composition, strategy, and impact of the king s book
16: Stephen M. Fallon: Nascent Republican Theory in Milton's Regicide Prose
17: David Loewenstein: Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers
18: Ariel Hessayon: Abiezer Coppe and the Ranters
19: Joad Raymond: Marchamont Nedham: Polemic, Analysis, Allegiance
20: James Loxley: The Claims of a Civil Science : Hobbes's Leviathan
21: Nigel Smith: Henry Vaughan and Thomas Vaughan: Welsh Anglicanism, Chymick , and the English Revolution
22: Kathleen Lynch: Conversion narratives in Old and New England
PART IV: PROTECTORATE
23: Elizabeth Sauer: Milton s Defences and the Principle of sanior pars
24: Katharine Gillespie: Prophecy and Political Expression in Cromwellian England
25: Nicholas McDowell: Marvell Among the Cromwellians
26: Janet Clare: Countering Anti-theatricality: Davenant and the Drama of the Protectorate
27: Elizabeth Spiller: Printed Recipe Books in Medical, Political, and Scientific Contexts
28: Rachel Hammersley: James Harrington s The Commonwealth of Oceana and the Republican Tradition
29: Amelia Zurcher: The Political Ideologies of Revolutionary Prose Romance
30: Kate Peters: Quakers and the Culture of Print in the 1650s
PART V: RESTORATION
31: Lament for a Nationa Milton s Readie and Easie Way and the Turn to Satire
32: Thomas N. Corns: The Early Poetry of John Dryden
33: Say first, what causea The Origins of Paradise Lost
34: Clement Hawes: Acephalous Authority: Satire in Butler, Marvell, and Dryden
35: Rachel Trubowitz: The Consolation of Natural Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish and the English Revolution
36: Shannon Miller: Family and Commonwealth in the Writings of Lucy Hutchinson
37: N. H. Keeble: Out of the spoils won in Battel : John Bunyan

About the Author

Laura Lunger Knoppers is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. She has published widely on seventeenth-century British literature, visual culture, politics, and religion, particularly on the works of John Milton.