By Conal Condren
This can be the 1st complete account, research and next heritage of George Lawson's Politica, 1660-89. For lengthy accredited as an important determine, via his feedback of Hobbes and his attainable effect on Locke, Lawson hasn't ever been studied extensive, nor has his biography been formerly verified. Professor Condren the following presents the context and the research of Lawson's significant paintings, within the procedure re-dating it and supplying a particularly various interpretation from past readings. a considerable part is dedicated to the historical past of the textual content and its use in controversies within the interval 1660-89, and there's a few reassessment of the connection among Hobbes, Locke and Lawson. The examine additionally makes use of Lawson's textual content to reopen questions about English seventeenth-century political thought often, and to prefigure a theoretical research on metaphor and political conceptualisation. The e-book therefore operates on a few degrees, philosophical and linguistic in addition to historic.
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It would also mean that the missing work is not the Politica as it came to be published in 1660 - for the text contains too many references to events and other texts post-dating 1651. If the latter possibility is correct These are scattered amongst the Baxter Treatises, DWL, vols. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7; see Roger Thomas, Catalogue of the Baxter Treatises. The relevant material mostly seems to date from c. ', vol. 1 fols. 99-150b. I had simply assumed 1657 or an earlier date, 'The Image of Utopia in the Political Writings of Lawson', Moreana, 69 (1981), pp.
It has been thought to have been written in 1657 around the very time when Lawson's patron was licking his wounds after rejection from Cromwell's last Parliament, a very different context. 3 Franklin's dating of the Politica is tied closely to his interpretation of the work in which he sees a hostility to the possibility of a Stuart Restoration; a plea to the nobility to stay loyal to Cromwell's Commonwealth and even a support for the Humble Petition and Advice. But for the fact that the Politica was undoubtedly long in gestation I believe Franklin to be mistaken 1 There is no systematic treatment of the literature of these years, but during them seventeenthcentury book production probably reached its peak.
Cousins, 'The Cavalier World of John Cleveland', Studies in Philology, 78, 1 (1981), pp. , quoting 'The Rebel Scot', in The Poems, eds. B. Morris and E. 85. Part II AN EXPOSITION OF LAWSON'S POLITICA INTRODUCTION Early in 1660, John Starkey, bookseller at the Mitre, near St Pauls, put Lawson's Politica on the market. George Thomason acquired his copy in May, the month in which the final terms for the return of Charles II were being worked out, and in which the twilight power of the Presbyterians in the Convention Parliamentfinallyguttered.