Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-03

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Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism. By DAVID LOEWENSTEIN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiii+413 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $55.95. ISBN 0-521-77032-7.

David Loewenstein sets out to explore 'the interactions of literature, polemics, and religious politics' in the culture of radical Puritanism and to examine 'the ways canonical and non-canonical writers of mid-seventeenth-century England attempted to represent the unsettling dramatic processes of political, religious, and social revolution' (p. 1). In particular, he seeks to accord religion the centrality it had for his subjects' lives and to attend to the cultural consequences of what he calls both 'radical spiritualism' (p. 5) and 'spiritual radicalism' (p. 10). Hence, though Milton...

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