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    Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England

    Giuseppina Iacona Lobo (Author)

    9781487501204

    Hardback, published 18 July 2017

    264 pages, 5 b&w illustrations
    23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.47 kg

    "This is an important and perceptive book which sheds new light on individual authors’ engagements with these issues through close textual analysis…"

    - G. Mahlberg, Berlin (The English Historical Review, vol 134 no 568)

    Examining works by well-known figures of the English Revolution, including John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Margaret Fell Fox, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Hobbes, and King Charles I, Giuseppina Iacono Lobo presents the first comprehensive study of conscience during this crucial and turbulent period.

    Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England argues that the discourse of conscience emerged as a means of critiquing, discerning, and ultimately reimagining the nation during the English Revolution. Focusing on the etymology of the term conscience, to know with, this book demonstrates how the idea of a shared knowledge uniquely equips conscience with the potential to forge dynamic connections between the self and nation, a potential only amplified by the surge in conscience writing in the mid-seventeenth-century. Iacono Lobo recovers a larger cultural discourse at the heart of which is a revolution of conscience itself through her readings of poetry, prose, political pamphlets and philosophy, letters, and biography. This revolution of conscience is marked by a distinct and radical connection between conscience and the nation as writers struggle to redefine, reimagine, and even render anew what it means to know with as an English people.

    Illustrations

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction: Revolutions of Conscience

    Chapter 1: Charles I, Eikon Basilike, and the Pulpit-Work of the King’s Conscience

    Chapter 2: Oliver Cromwell and the Duties of Conscience

    Chapter 3: Early Quaker Writing and the Unifying Light of Conscience

    Chapter 4: Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and the Civilizing Force of Conscience

    Chapter 5: Lucy Hutchinson’s Revisions of Conscience

    Chapter 6: Milton’s Nation of Conscience

    Afterword

    Notes

    Bibliography
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