Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The look of power; CHAPTER 2 Utopian experimentalism, 1620...1638; CHAPTER 3 ReformationŽ and DesolationŽ: the new horizons of the 1640's; CHAPTER 4 Out of the true nothing,Ž 1649...1653; CHAPTER 5 From constitutionalism to aestheticization, 1654...1670; Notes; Index
Summary
Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics was engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics
