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The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite the Declaration of Breda, where Charles II promised to forgive those who had acted against his father and the monarchy during the Civil War and Interregnum, opponents of the Stuart regime felt unsafe, and many were actively persecuted. Nevertheless, their ideas lived on in the political underground of England and in the exile networks they created abroad. While much of the historiography of English republicanism has focused on the British Isles and the legacy of the English Revolution in the American colonies, this study traces the lives, ideas and networks of three seventeenth-century English republicans who left England for the European continent after the Restoration. Based on sources from a range of English and continental European archives, Gaby Mahlberg explores the lived experiences of these three exiles - Edmund Ludlow in Switzerland, Henry Neville in Italy, and Algernon Sidney - for a truly transnational perspective on early modern English republicanism.

Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c. 1600-1840

Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Of Women, Snakes and Trees: The Bible -- 2. The Talmud: A Tale of Two Bodies -- 3. Patriarchalism and the Qur'an -- 4. Citizens But Second Class: Women in Aristotle's Politics (384-322 B.C.E.) -- 5. Augustine's The City of God (fifth century A.D.): Patriarchy, Pluralism and the Creation of Man -- 6. Men, Women and Monsters: John Knox's First Blast of the Trumpet (1558) -- 7. Love and Order: William Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (1622) -- 8. Filmer's Patriarcha (1680): Absolute Power, Political Patriarchalism and Patriotic Language -- 9. Patriarchy, Primogeniture and Prescription: Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government (1698) -- 10. Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693): Fathers and Conversational Friendship -- 11. 'Nothing Pleases Like an Intire Subjection': Mary Astell Reflects on the Politics of Marriage (1700) -- 12. Ants, Bees, Fathers, Sons: Pope's Essay on Man (1734) and the Natural History of Patriarchy -- 13. Rousseau's Emile (1762): The Patriarchal Family and the Education of the Republican Citizen -- 14. Patriarchy and Enlightenment in Immanuel Kant (1784) -- 15. In 'Her Father's House': Women as Property in Wollstonecraft's Mary (1788) -- 16. Father Enfantin, the Saint-Simonians and the 'Call to Woman' (1831) -- 17. Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) -- 18. Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1890) as 'Patriarchal Moment' -- 19. Account of a Fight against Paternal Authority: Franz Kafka's Letter to his Father (1919) -- 20. Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding (1932): Patriarchy's Tragic Flaws -- 21. 'His Peremptory Prick': The Failure of the Phallic in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve (1977) -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Notes -- Index -- Imprint.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Patriarchalism is omnipresent in Western culture and it pervades the texts that have shaped this culture. From the creation story in the Bible to the ancient authors, from the Church fathers to the treatises of Enlightenment philosophers, right up to modern fiction, male authority over women, children and other dependents has shaped the nature of human relationships and the discourses about these relationships. This collection of short essays offers fresh and novel readings of key texts in the history of patriarchalism as a concept of power. The texts selected are from political, religious and literary works and together the readings add new insights to a tradition that has never gone uncontested, yet is unlikely to disappear soon.

Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to bring these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history approaches to English republicanism, including both literary culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political research

European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the Continental reception of and engagement with seventeenth-century English thinkers and political events. Bringing together a range of fresh and original essays by British and European scholars in the field of early modern intellectual history and English studies, this collection of essays revises a one-sided approach to English republicanism and widens the scope of study beyond linguistic and national boundaries by looking at English republicans and their continenta.