Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689 (History of European Political and Constitutional Thought)

Cuttica, Cesare (EDT)/ Peltonen, Markku (EDT)

Brill（2019/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 303 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004385986

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This cross-disciplinary collection of essays examines - for the first time and in detail - the variegated notions of democracy put forward in seventeenth-century England. It thus shows that democracy was widely explored and debated at the time; that anti-democratic currents and themes have a long history; that the seventeenth century is the first period in English history where we nonetheless find positive views of democracy; and that whether early-modern writers criticised or advocated it, these discussions were important for the subsequent development of the concept and practice 'democracy'.

By offering a new historical account of such development, the book provides an innovative exploration of an important but overlooked topic whose relevance is all the more considerable in today's political debates, civic conversation, academic arguments and media talk.


Contributors include Camilla Boisen, Alan Cromartie, Cesare Cuttica, Hannah Dawson, Martin Dzelzainis, Rachel Foxley, Matthew Growhoski, Rachel Hammersley, Peter Lake, Gaby Mahlberg, Markku Peltonen, Edward Vallance, and John West.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Conventions

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: 'Gone Missing': Democracy and Anti-democracy in Seventeenth-Century England

 Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen

 PART 1

Democracy and the People: Citizenship, Representation and the Commonwealth

1 Imagining Citizenship in the Levellers and Milton

 Rachel Foxley

2 Democracy, Toleration, and the Interests of the People

 Alan Cromartie

3 'All Government is in the people, from the people, and for the people': Democracy in the English Revolution

 Markku Peltonen

4 The Place of Democracy in Late Stuart England

 Hannah Dawson

 PART 2

Democracy and the World-Turned-Upside-Down: Religion, Emotions and Polemical Fire

5 'A most dangerous rudeness': Anti-populism and the Literary Justification of Absolutism in the Fiction of John Barclay (1582-1621)

 Matthew Growhoski

6 The Spectre Haunting Early Seventeenth-Century England (ca. 1603-1649): Democracy at Its Worst

 Cesare Cuttica

7 Anti-puritanism as Political Discourse; the Laudian Critique of Puritan 'Popularity'

 Peter Lake

8 Presbyterians, Republicans, and Democracy in Church and State, c.1570-1660

 Rachel Hammersley

9 Poetry, the Passions, and Anti-democracy in Later Stuart England

 John West

PART 3

 Democracy and the Other: Slaves, Natives and Women

10 Democracy and Anti-democracy: the Roger Williams and John Cotton Debate Revisited

 Camilla Boisen

11 'The vulgar only scap'd who stood without': Milton and the Politics of Exclusion

 Martin Dzelzainis

12 A Democratic Culture? Women, Citizenship and Subscriptional Texts in Early Modern England

 Edward Vallance

13 The Parliament of Women and the Restoration Crisis

 Gaby Mahlberg

Index