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The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630-1660.(Book Review)
Publication: The Modern Language Review Publication Date: 01-JUL-05 Author: Keeble, N.H.
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Modern Humanities Research Association
The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630-1660. By NICHOLAS MCDOWELL. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. x+219 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-926051-6.
The rather tired generalities and predictable collocations of the title of this study do not in the least prepare the reader for its challenging and exciting contents. This is no bland general overview of Levellers, Diggers, Quakers, et al. rehearsing the familiar connections between masterless men, mechanic preachers, the gift of free grace, and social insubordination. On the contrary, its business is to 'revise our understanding of...
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