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Title: GANGRAENA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
By: Ann Hughes
Format: Hardback

List price: £182.50


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ISBN 10: 0199251924
ISBN 13: 9780199251926
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 23 September, 2004
Pages: 496
Description: This meticulously researched and wide-ranging book is the first comprehensive study of Thomas Edwards's Gangraena, probably the most important printed work of the English revolution. It provides a vivid account of the printed polemic of the revolution and its place in the religious and political mobilization of the mid-1640s. Hughes's book is a contribution to the history of Presbyterianism, of London, of parliamentarian fragmentation, and of reading duringthe revolution. It combines the new `history of the book' with a concern for politics and religion during the crisis of the English revolution.
Synopsis: This is the first comprehensive study of Gangraena, an intemperate anti-sectarian polemic written by a London Presbyterian Thomas Edwards and published in three parts in 1646. These books, which bitterly opposed any moves to religious toleration, were the most notorious and widely debated texts in a Revolution in which print was crucial to political moblization. They have been equally important to later scholars who have continued the lively debate over the value of Gangraena as a source for the ideas and movements its author condemned. This study includes a thorough assessment of the usefulness of Edwards's work as a historical source, but goes beyond this to provide a wide-ranging discussion of the importance of Gangraena in its own right as a lively work of propaganda, crucial to Presbyterian campaigning in the mid-1640s. Contemporary and later readings of this complex text are traced through a variety of methods, literary and historical, with discussions of printed responses, annotations and citation. Hughes's work thus provides a vivid and convincing picture of revolutionary London and a reappraisal of the nature of 1640s Presbyterianism, too often dismissed as conservative.Drawing on the newer histories of the book and of reading, Hughes explores the influence of Edwards's distasteful but compelling book.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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