Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England Contributor(s): Lobo, Giuseppina Iacona (Author) |
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ISBN: 148750120X ISBN-13: 9781487501204 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $84.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 16th Century - History | Europe - Renaissance - History | Modern - 16th Century |
Dewey: 820.935 |
LCCN: 2016288749 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" (1.20 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Examining works by well-known figures of the English Revolution, including John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Margaret Fell Fox, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Hobbes, and King Charles I, Giuseppina Iacono Lobo presents the first comprehensive study of conscience during this crucial and turbulent period. Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England argues that the discourse of conscience emerged as a means of critiquing, discerning, and ultimately reimagining the nation during the English Revolution. Focusing on the etymology of the term conscience, to know with, this book demonstrates how the idea of a shared knowledge uniquely equips conscience with the potential to forge dynamic connections between the self and nation, a potential only amplified by the surge in conscience writing in the mid-seventeenth-century. Iacono Lobo recovers a larger cultural discourse at the heart of which is a revolution of conscience itself through her readings of poetry, prose, political pamphlets and philosophy, letters, and biography. This revolution of conscience is marked by a distinct and radical connection between conscience and the nation as writers struggle to redefine, reimagine, and even render anew what it means to know with as an English people. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lobo, Giuseppina Iacona: - Giuseppina Iacono Lobo is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Loyola University Maryland. |