Words at War: The Contested Language of the English Civil War

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Andrew Hadfield (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Sussex) Paul Hammond (Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds)

Words at War

The Contested Language of the English Civil War

Andrew Hadfield (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Sussex), Paul Hammond (Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds)

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Oxford University Press
23 May 2024

Historical & comparative linguistics; British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Military history; English Civil War

Series: Proceedings of the British Academy

The English Civil War was not simply a conflict between two opposing, unstable, complicated alliances of various factions, but a war of words. Supporters of the King and allies of Parliament and the New Model Army clashed over ideals, ideas, and concepts as they each sought to impose their understanding of history and visions of the future, realizing that victory could only be secured by establishing a political and cultural language that would guide and direct those who used it. Accordingly, the Civil War witnessed vociferous arguments over many key English words central to life and thought in the seventeenth century, and often up to the present day. Words at War seeks to bring together scholars of literature, history, religion, and philosophy to analyse the ways in which key terms were deployed and debated in the Civil War and Commonwealth. In doing so it refocuses attention on ideas and concepts that shaped the modern world well beyond the bloody conflict on the battlefield.

Edited by: Andrew Hadfield (Professor of English Professor of English University of Sussex), Paul Hammond (Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 261
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 682g
ISBN: 9780197267622
ISBN 10: 0197267629
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 23 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Notes on Contributors ANDREW HADFIELD AND PAUL HAMMOND: Introduction Part I: God and Providence 1: KATRIN ETTENHUBER: God in Scripture Study Aids 2: VICTORIA SILVER: God in Hobbes 3: MATTHEW AUGUSTINE: Providence in Browne 4: N. H. KEEBLE: Providence in the Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell Part II: Freedom and Servitude 5: N. H. KEEBLE: Freedom in Early Quaker Tracts 6: PHIL WITHINGTON: Slavery in John Taylor 7: NICHOLAS MCDOWELL: Freedom in the Cavalier Poets Part III: Nature and Law 8: ANDREW HADFIELD: Nature and Natural Law in Radical Writers 9: PAUL HAMMOND: Law in Clarendon 10: GILLIAN WRIGHT: Nature in Cowley 11: ANDREW HADFIELD: Nature in Lovelace Part IV: King and People 12: NIALL ALLSOPP: The People in Marvell and Cavendish 13: ALICE HUNT: The King in the Parliamentary Debates of 1657 14: RUTH CONNOLLY: The People in Royalist Women's Writing 15: JACK AVERY: The King and the People in the Newsbooks Part V: Conscience and Virtue 16: STEWART MOTTRAM: Conscience in Marvell 17: ELIZABETH SAUER: Conscience and Nation in Milton 1640-1660 18: CHRISTOPHER TILMOUTH: Virtue and Defeat in Davenant and Cowley 19: PAUL HAMMOND: Virtue in Milton Part VI: Legacy 20: BLAIR WORDEN: Checks and Balances: The Birth of a Vocabulary Bibliography Index

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy and the English Association. His books include Shakespeare and Republicanism; Edmund Spenser: A Life; Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance; Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution; John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion; and Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing. Paul Hammond is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome; Milton and the People; Milton's Complex Words: Essays on the Conceptual Structure of 'Paradise Lost'; and Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire. He is co-editor of The Poems of John Dryden, Five Volumes and editor-in-chief of a new Longman Annotated English Poets edition of The Complete Poems of John Milton.