1st Edition
European Contexts for English Republicanism
Biography
Dirk Wiemann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Along with a keen interest in postcolonial studies, his research focuses on the areas of seventeenth-century English republicanism and radicalism, emotion studies and contemporary representations of the English Civil War. His publications include Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English (Editions Rodopi B.V., 2008) and a number of articles on aspects of cultural politics in seventeenth-century England. Gaby Mahlberg is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British History at Northumbria University, UK. She has previously taught at the University of East Anglia, Queen Mary College and Goldsmiths in the UK, and Humboldt University, Berlin and the University of Potsdam in Germany, and is author of Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century: Dreaming of Another Game (Manchester University Press, 2009).
'... well written ... students of the period will find this a helpful addition to our understanding of the English Revolution.' Seventeenth-Century News '... highly interesting to scholars working on early modern political thought.' Renaissance Quarterly 'Gaby Mahlberg and Dirk Wiemann's excellent collection of essays, European Contexts for English Republicanism, is a much-needed, groundbreaking work. ... Early modern intellectual historians will find it useful and enjoyable for many years to come. Historians of the book, legal and political historians, as well as early modern European historians will only benefit from it.' Sixteenth Century Journal
