Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, March 22nd, 2005
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Most intellectual and cultural historians accept J. G. A. Pocock's claim that civic humanist discourse petered out in England after the middle of the sixteenth century, to return in a republican form only in the 1640s. (1) Markku Peltonen and David Norbrook have recently challenged Pocock's narrative and shown the influence of civic humanist and republican ideas between 1580 and 1640. Neither denies, though, that civic humanism was a marginal discourse during this time. (2) Like Pocock, they see increasing political absolutism as the primary factor explaining its marginalization. In this ...
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