{"product_id":"words-at-war-the-contested-language-of-the-english-civil-war-9780197267622","title":"Words at War: The Contested Language of the English Civil War","description":"The English Civil War was not simply a conflict between two opposing, unstable, complicated alliances of various factions, but a war of words. Supporters of the King and allies of Parliament and the New Model Army clashed over ideals, ideas, and concepts as they each sought to impose their understanding of history and visions of the future, realizing that victory could only be secured by establishing a political and cultural language that would guide and direct those who used it. Accordingly, the Civil War witnessed vociferous arguments over many key English words central to life and thought in the seventeenth century, and often up to the present day. \u003cem\u003eWords at War\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to bring together scholars of literature, history, religion, and philosophy to analyse the ways in which key terms were deployed and debated in the Civil War and Commonwealth. In doing so it refocuses attention on ideas and concepts that shaped the modern world well beyond the bloody conflict on the battlefield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Hadfield, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, University of Sussex\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul Hammond, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Hadfield\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy and the English Association. His books include \u003cem\u003eShakespeare and Republicanism\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eEdmund Spenser: A Life\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eLying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eLiterature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eJohn Donne: In the Shadow of Religion\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul Hammond is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include \u003cem\u003eDryden and the Traces of Classical Rome\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMilton and the People\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMilton's Complex Words: Essays on the Conceptual Structure of 'Paradise Lost'\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eTragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire\u003c\/em\u003e. He is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Poems of John Dryden, Five Volumes\u003c\/em\u003e and editor-in-chief of a new Longman Annotated English Poets edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Poems of John Milton\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892475498770,"sku":"9780197267622","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_45751d25-9451-4382-8b1f-cf67966bbf54.jpg?v=1738192041","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/words-at-war-the-contested-language-of-the-english-civil-war-9780197267622","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}