Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled By Andrew Shifflett

Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled

Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled By Andrew Shifflett
0521592038
9780521592031
English
188
Hardcover
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 Stoicism Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton War and Peace Reconciled.