Book contents
- Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions
- Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on the contributors
- Book part
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The English Revolution and the interregnum
- Part II Restoration, glorious revolution, and Hanoverian succession
- 6 ‘Home to our People’: nation and kingship in late seventeenth-century political verse
- 7 ‘YetIsraelstill serves’: home and nation in Milton’sSamson Agonistes
- 8 ‘A thing remote’: Defoe and the home in the metropolis and New World
- 9 Pope’s homes: London, Windsor Forest, and Twickenham
- 10 Samuel Johnson and London
- 11 Contesting ‘home’ in eighteenth-century women’s verse
- 12 Home, homeland, and the Gothic
- Part III Revolution in France, reaction in Britain
- Guide to further reading
- Index
7 - ‘YetIsraelstill serves’: home and nation in Milton’sSamson Agonistes
from Part II - Restoration, glorious revolution, and Hanoverian succession
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions
- Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on the contributors
- Book part
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The English Revolution and the interregnum
- Part II Restoration, glorious revolution, and Hanoverian succession
- 6 ‘Home to our People’: nation and kingship in late seventeenth-century political verse
- 7 ‘YetIsraelstill serves’: home and nation in Milton’sSamson Agonistes
- 8 ‘A thing remote’: Defoe and the home in the metropolis and New World
- 9 Pope’s homes: London, Windsor Forest, and Twickenham
- 10 Samuel Johnson and London
- 11 Contesting ‘home’ in eighteenth-century women’s verse
- 12 Home, homeland, and the Gothic
- Part III Revolution in France, reaction in Britain
- Guide to further reading
- Index
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