At a time of crisis and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of religious and politic

This book examines the English revolution from 1640-1660, with particualr attenion to the social structure of England at the time.

The period from 1640 to 1660, which includes the Civil War, the beheading of Charles I, and the reign of a republican government, is one of the most controversi

An important study of the relationship between female agency and cheap print throughout the revolutionary decades 1640 to 1660, this book offers an analysis of

Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural