Second Hand The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution

This scholarly collection examines the extraordinary range and richness of the literary, political and religious writing generated by the upheavals of the English Revolution and Civil Wars. Edited by leading seventeenth-century specialist N. H. Keeble, the volume brings together essays by distinguished historians and literary scholars exploring the writings, ideas and personalities that shaped the revolutionary decades.

Subjects covered include political thought, radical pamphleteering, Milton's prose, Marvell, women's writing, Royalist and Puritan literature, prophetic and devotional works, and the literary legacy of the Revolution. Contributors place these texts within their historical context, illuminating the relationship between political conflict, religious controversy and literary culture.

Combining literary criticism, intellectual history and historical analysis, this volume provides an excellent introduction to one of the most significant periods in British history and remains an essential reference work for students, researchers and enthusiasts of the English Civil Wars and seventeenth-century literature.