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The Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. Conal Condren

    1. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Conal Condren
      Pages 1-24

  3. Overview of the Political Domain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Stability and Structure

      • Conal Condren
      Pages 27-56

    3. Conflation and Distinction

      • Conal Condren
      Pages 57-88

  4. The Vocabulary of Status and Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Subject and Citizen

      • Conal Condren
      Pages 91-114

    3. Resistance and Rebellion

      • Conal Condren
      Pages 115-139

    4. Will All the Radicals Please Lie Down, We Can’t See the Seventeenth Century

      • Conal Condren
      Pages 140-168

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 169-215
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About this book

This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Taking its starting point in modern theories of language,intellectual history is first reconceptualised. Part 1 presents an overview of the political domain in the seventeenth century arguing that what we see as the political was fugitive and subject to reductionist pressures from better established fields of discourse. Further, there were strong pressures leading towards an indiscriminate and relatively general vocabulary, in turn facilitating the imposition of our anachronistic images of political theory. Part 2 focuses on a sub-set of the political vocabulary, charting the changing relationships between the words subject, citizen, resistance, rebellion, the coinage of rhetorical exchange. The final chapter returns most explicitly to the themes of the introduction, by exploring how the historians own vocabulary can be systematically misleading when taken into the context of seventeenth-century word use.

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  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Conal Condren

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