Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled

by Andrew Shifflett

This book offers a fresh examination of key seventeenth-century writers--notably Andrew Marvell, Katherine Philips and John Milton--in the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and oppositional potential of the philosophical tradition of Stoicism. As a study of the rhetorical and philosophical bases of English neostoicism, this book sketches an important new map of political discourse in the civil war period.

188 pages, Hardcover

First published August 28, 1998