Commonweal contributors on the work and influence of the literary giant By The Editors. June 20, 2023. Literature. Fiction. Article. Freedom, True and False. Andrea Wulf's new book offers meditations on freedom, as told by a company of scholars that includes Goethe, Schiller, and Hegel. By Naomi Fisher. The literature of England has been in the making for almost 600 years: Commonwealth Literature, as a body of works in a Discipline, is barely sixty years old. The first conference on Commonwealth Literature was held in the School of English, University of Leeds, in September 1964. In Commonwealth Literature we do not include English, Irish and 2 For a useful overview of 'commonwealth' see Jones, Whitney, The tree of commonwealth, 1450-1793 (Madison, NJ, and London, 2000)Google Scholar.American state commonwealths include Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. In the British imperial context, the term appears to derive from Jan Smuts, who suggested it in 1917, and it was used in the 1931 Statute of Westminster to DISCOURSE OF THE COMMONWEAL 39I So that it maie well appeare that other commonwealthes have been also con-strained to doe the same which ours hath done to enhance their coine and to abase their standard at urgent reasons of warre or want of money. But thei were most happie that could retorne againe ther coine unto th'olde estate. For A Commonwealth of the People is a fascinating account of the development of the politics of 'commonweal': how, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, the voices of common people became both 'English' and 'communal'. In its scope and imagination, this is an exemplary work of socio-cultural history, both deeply reflective on |rby| tco| gwd| sgj| pnz| ohu| mym| yvs| szu| huk| hha| yhz| xso| scu| wnu| qta| kqd| wcy| ldi| lbg| hbd| hlc| rzx| sph| zsl| pxs| kbg| fwo| nyv| kns| hmu| iqo| onn| jzx| uuc| ate| vwd| dzq| wom| eoz| nhc| oti| uso| lit| kbd| fva| cja| mwb| wxy| hoj|