What happens to the discourse of a political community when the ideological assumptions that underlie that discourse are challenged? This book looks at the interdependency between discourse and ideology by examining the petitions, published speeches and pamphlets of the English Revolution. For the first time in Western history, in the Revolution of 1642, large numbers of literate people had access to a mass medium - printing. Through this medium, writers and readers across the political spectrum were forced to come to terms ...
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What happens to the discourse of a political community when the ideological assumptions that underlie that discourse are challenged? This book looks at the interdependency between discourse and ideology by examining the petitions, published speeches and pamphlets of the English Revolution. For the first time in Western history, in the Revolution of 1642, large numbers of literate people had access to a mass medium - printing. Through this medium, writers and readers across the political spectrum were forced to come to terms with their common background of rhetorical training as it clashed with their widely divergent ideas of kingship and the role of the government. This book analyses three stages of the Revolution - the events predicting the first civil war, the regicide and the debate over the restoration of the monarchy. The author's primary focus is on John Milton, but she also studies John Foxe and James Harrington.
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