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Eikon Basilike: with selections from Eikonoklastes
John Milton
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Description for Eikon Basilike: with selections from Eikonoklastes
Paperback. Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king's motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton's response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Editor(s): Daems, Jim; Nelson, Dr. Holly Faith. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 334 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king's motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton’s response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Here Milton, writing from a republican perspective, attacks the substance and style of the King's Book. These fascinating texts are now available in an edition that also includes a rich selection of historical documents.
This Broadview edition's critical introduction discusses the publication history and both seventeenth-century and current debates regarding the work and ... Read more
Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king's motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton’s response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Here Milton, writing from a republican perspective, attacks the substance and style of the King's Book. These fascinating texts are now available in an edition that also includes a rich selection of historical documents.
This Broadview edition's critical introduction discusses the publication history and both seventeenth-century and current debates regarding the work and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Broadview Editions
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Peterborough, Canada
ISBN
9781551115948
SKU
V9781551115948
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Ref
99-1
About John Milton
Jim Daems currently teaches in the English Department at the University College of the Fraser Valley. He is the author of Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture (Continuum, 2005). Holly Faith Nelson, Assistant Professor of English at Trinity Western University, has co-edited The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose (2000) and Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and ... Read more
Reviews for Eikon Basilike: with selections from Eikonoklastes
“This is a very intelligent and authoritative edition of Eikon Basilike, a text crucial for the study of seventeenth-century English literature and politics. The extraordinary textual duel between England’s fallen king, Charles I, and her epic poet, John Milton, has come to be seen as one of the great set-pieces of early modern polemical literature, and this edition now allows ... Read more