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The Harringtonian Moment

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The Political Works of James Harrington. Edited with an Introduction by PocockJ. G. A.. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1977).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

David Underdown
David Underdown*
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Spring 1979 , pp. 171 - 179
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1979

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References

1. This is the first complete edition of Harrington's works since the original Toland-Birch edition was last reprinted in 1771. The last edition of Oceana was published in 1924: see below, note 10.

2. Shklar, Judith, “Ideology Hunting: the Case of James Harrington,” American Political Science Review, LIII (1959), 662CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3. Tawney, R. H., “Harrington's Interpretation of his Age,” Proceedings of the British Academy, XXVII (1941), 199–223Google Scholar; also in Sutherland, L. S. (ed.), Studies in History (London, 1966), pp. 238–61Google Scholar. Tawney, R. H., “The Rise of the Gentry, 1558-1640,” Economic History Review, XI (1941), 1–38Google Scholar. For a useful summary of, and selections from, the ensuing controversy, see Stone, Lawrence (ed.), Social Change and Revolution in England 1540-1640 (New York, 1965)Google Scholar.

4. Pocock, J. G. A., The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (Cambridge, 1957), Ch. 6, esp. pp. 141, 143-44, 147Google Scholar.

5. Pocock, J. G. A., “Machiavelli, Harrington, and English Political Ideologies in the Eighteenth Century,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, XXII (1965), 549–83CrossRefGoogle Scholar; also in Pocock, , Politics, Language and Time (New York, 1971)Google Scholar, Ch. 4. Pocock, , “James Harrington and the Good Old Cause: A Study of the Ideological Context of His Writings,” Journal of British Studies, X, No. 1 (1970), 30–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Pocock, , The Machiavellian Moment (Princeton, 1975)Google Scholar, esp. Part III.

6. Pocock, , Politics, Language and Time, p. 23Google Scholar.

7. Pocock, , Machiavellian Moment, p. 384Google Scholar.

8. Pocock, , Harrington, pp. 7–14Google Scholar, explains the delay between the entry of Oceana in the Stationers' Register on September 19, 1656 and its actual appearance in November.

9. Pocock, , Harrington, Intro., p. xviiGoogle Scholar.

10. Liljegren, S. B. (ed.), James Harrington's Oceana (Heidelberg, 1924)Google Scholar.

11. For this, see Pocock, , Harrington, Intro., pp. xi–xiiiGoogle Scholar.

12. Worden, Blair, “Edmund Ludlow: the Puritan and the Whig,” Times Literary Supplement, No. 3,904 (7 Jan. 1977), 15–16Google Scholar.

13. Pocock, , Harrington, p. 738Google Scholar and n.l.

14. Stieg, Margaret F. (ed.) The Diary of John Harington, M.P. 1646-55 [Somerset Record Soc., 74] (Taunton, 1977), p. 63Google Scholar. Pocock, , Harrington, pp. 2–4Google Scholar. The confusion between Sir James of Swakeleys and John of Kelston can be easily cleared up by reference to Grimble, Ian, The Harington Family (London, 1957)Google Scholar.

15. Pocock, , Harrington, p. 15Google Scholar.

16. Ibid., pp. 19-21.

17. Ibid., p. 43.

18. Ibid., pp. 55-58. See also Macpherson, C. B., The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (Oxford, 1962)Google Scholar, Ch. 6; also Macpherson, , “Harrington's ‘Opportunity State’,” Past and Present, No. 17 (April, 1960), 45–70Google Scholar.

19. Pocock, , Harrington, p. 46Google Scholar.

20. Ibid., p. 782.

21. Ibid., pp. 77-78, 370-87.

22. For example, ibid., pp. 161-63, 165, 170, 174, 178-79, 183-85, 205.

23. Ibid., pp. 82-84.

24. Ibid., pp. 101-04. See also Pocock, , “James Harrington and the Good Old Cause,” J.B.S., X, 44–47Google Scholar. To those listed by Pocock in p. 46, a. 49, might be added Jenkinson, Kelsey, and Chaloner: Rutt, John T. (ed.), Diary of Thomas Burton (London, 1828), III, 363-65, 408, 538Google Scholar.

25. Burton's Diary, III, 144, 592Google Scholar; IV, 27. Pocock, (Harrington, p. 102)Google Scholar is right in saying that Harrington's name was not mentioned in the debate; but Gott's reference to Oceana could not be more explicit (see below, p. 179).

26. Burton's Diary, III, 516Google Scholar.

27. Ibid., III, 357-58, 404.

28. Pocock, , Harrington, p. 395Google Scholar.

29. Ibid., p. 198.

30. Ibid., pp. 129-30.

31. Burton's Diary, III, 144Google Scholar.