"Books," wrote Milton, "are like dragon's teeth that spring up armed men." This study looks at some of the armed men that Milton, Marvell, Browne, and Butler sent off to fight, reading a series of 17th-century literary texts against the historical and political backdrop of the English Revolution. Confronting the formalist taboo on historical and political context, Wilding provides many challenging new readings, exploring issues of war and peace, of economic exploitation, social repression and the radical politics of the Levellers and Diggers. The issues that resulted in revolution three centuries ago are still relevant today, as Wilding persuasively demonstrates in a collection that will interest scholars and students of English literature, history, and political science.

Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution

WILDING, Michael

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

Milton's Paradise lost (Sydney studies in literature)

Sydney University Press

Wildest Dreams

History & Criticism

Univ of Queensland Pr

Political fictions

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The short story embassy: A novel

Wild & Woolley

Under Saturn: Four stories

Black Swan.

186p paperback neat and firm copy, as new, not read, very good

Social visions (Sydney studies in society and culture)

Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, Dept. of English, University of Sydney

Book of the reading

Distributed by Tower Books

First published in 1980, Political Fictions is a work of literary criticism with emphasis on the specific handling of literary forms. The author examines the way in which writers exploring radical politics simultaneously explore radical literary possibilities and look at the various sorts of fictional modes they use-romance, utopian fable, discovered manuscript, imaginary book. He shows how all the writers under discussion experiment with non-realistic forms- sometimes in dialectical combination with realism as one of the poles of the novel's structure, sometimes in rejection of realism. Wilding has selected six such writers and examines some of their work in detail: Mark Twain, William Morris, Jack London, D.H. Lawrence, Arthur Koestler, and George Orwell. He has chosen works which he believes have been misunderstood and ignored by Left as well as Right. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of English literature and critical theory.

Political Fictions (Routledge Revivals)

Literary

Routledge

Somewhere new: New & selected stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

McBride's Books

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