Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689

Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of contents Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Conventions Notes on Contributors Part 1 Democracy and the People: Citizenship, Representation and the Commonwealth Chapter 1 Imagining Citizenship in the Levellers and Milton Levellers and Republicans The Boundaries of Citizenship Imagining Citizens Citizenship and Slavery Gender and Citizenship Conclusion Select Bibliography Chapter 2 Democracy, Toleration, and the Interests of the People i ii iii Select Bibliography Chapter 3 ‘All Government is in the people, from the people, and for the people’: Democracy in the English Revolution i1 ii iii iv v vi vii viii Select Bibliography Chapter 4 The Place of Democracy in Late Stuart England i* ii iii iv v vi vii vii Select Bibliography Part 2 Democracy and the World-Turned-Upside-Down: Religion, Emotions and Polemical Fire Chapter 5 ‘A most dangerous rudeness’: Anti-populism and the Literary Justification of Absolutism in the Fiction of John Barcl i ii iii iv v Select Bibliography Chapter 6 The Spectre Haunting Early Seventeenth-Century England (ca. 1603–1649): Democracy at Its Worst Introduction* Jacobean Anti-democracy (1603–1625) Caroline Anti-democracy: Act i (1625–1642) Caroline Anti-democracy: Act ii (1643–1649) Conclusion Select Bibliography Chapter 7 Anti-puritanism as Political Discourse; the Laudian Critique of Puritan ‘Popularity’ ii iii iv v Select Bibliography Chapter 8 Presbyterians, Republicans, and Democracy in Church and State, ca. 1570–1660 Introduction Presbyterians as Democrats Independents as Democrats Democracy in England Post-1649 Democratic Republicans Nedham’s Anti-Presbyterianism Harrington, the Presbyterians and the History of Ordination Conclusion Select Bibliography Chapter 9 Poetry, the Passions, and Anti-democracy in Later Stuart England 1660 1681–2 Select Bibliography Part 3 Democracy and the Other: Slaves, Natives and Women Chapter 10 Democracy and Anti-democracy: the Roger Williams and John Cotton Debate Revisited Introduction* Roger Williams Natural Law and Calvinism John Cotton Conclusion Select Bibliography Chapter 11 ‘The vulgar only scap’d who stood without’: Milton and the Politics of Exclusion i ii iii Select Bibliography Chapter 12 A Democratic Culture? Women, Citizenship and Subscriptional Texts in Early Modern England Select Bibliography Chapter 13 The Parliament of Women and the Restoration Crisis Introduction The Parliament-of-Women Genre The Best Form of Government Conclusion Select Bibliography Index