Democracy and anti-democracy in early modern England, 1603-1689 / edited by Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen.

SeriesHistory of European political and constitutional thought ; volume 1
Contents Introduction : 'Gone missing' : democracy and anti-democracy in seventeenth-century England / Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen -- Imagining citizenship in the Levellers and Milton / Rachel Foxley -- Democracy, toleration, and the interests of the people / Alan Cromartie -- 'All government is in the people, from the people, and for the people' : democracy in the English Revolution / Markku Peltonen -- The place of democracy in late Stuart England / Hannah Dawson -- 'A most dangerous rudeness' : anti-populism and the literary justification of absolutism in the fiction of John Barclay (1582-1621) / Matthew Growhoski -- The spectre haunting early seventeenth-century England (ca. 1603-1649) : democracy at its worst / Cesare Cuttica -- Anti-puritanism as political fiscourse : the Laudian critique of Puritan 'popularity' / Peter Lake -- Presbyterians, republicans, and democracy in church and state, c.1570-1660 / Rachel Hammersley -- Poetry, the passions, and anti-democracy in later Stuart England / John West -- Democracy and anti-democracy : the Roger Williams and John Cotton debate revisited / Camilla Boisen -- 'The vulgar only scap'd who stood without' : Milton and the politics of exclusion / Martin Dzelzainis -- A democratic culture? : women, citizenship and subscriptional texts in early modern England / Edward Vallance -- The parliament of women and the restoration crisis / Gaby Mahlberg.
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