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Introduction : 'Gone missing' : democracy and anti-democracy in seventeenth-century England / Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen

Imagining citizenship in the Levellers and Milton / Rachel Foxley

Democracy, toleration, and the interests of the people / Alan Cromartie

'All government is in the people, from the people, and for the people' : democracy in the English Revolution / Markku Peltonen

The place of democracy in late Stuart England / Hannah Dawson

'A most dangerous rudeness' : anti-populism and the literary justification of absolutism in the fiction of John Barclay (1582-1621) / Matthew Growhoski

The spectre haunting early seventeenth-century England (ca. 1603-1649) : democracy at its worst / Cesare Cuttica

Anti-puritanism as political fiscourse : the Laudian critique of Puritan 'popularity' / Peter Lake

Presbyterians, republicans, and democracy in church and state, c.1570-1660 / Rachel Hammersley

Poetry, the passions, and anti-democracy in later Stuart England / John West

Democracy and anti-democracy : the Roger Williams and John Cotton debate revisited / Camilla Boisen

'The vulgar only scap'd who stood without' : Milton and the politics of exclusion / Martin Dzelzainis

A democratic culture? : women, citizenship and subscriptional texts in early modern England / Edward Vallance

The parliament of women and the restoration crisis / Gaby Mahlberg.

Democracy > Philosophy.

Democracy > England > History > 17th century.

Civil society > England > History > 17th century.

Citizenship > England > History > 17th century.

Church and state > England > History > 17th century.

Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714.