Staff Profile:Dr Rachel Foxley

Name:

Dr Rachel Foxley

Job Title:

Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

Undergraduate Teaching

Part One Option: Radicalism and Protest in Britain: from the Levellers to Occupy

Part Two Option: People, Power and Revolution: Political Culture in seventeenth-century England

Part Three Topic: Ireland in the seventeenth century: colonisation, conflict and identity

Special Subject: England without a King, 1649-1660

Administrative roles:

I am the Director of Postgraduate Studies in History

Research Statement

My work focuses on the history of political language and political thought, particularly in seventeenth-century England. My PhD and first book were on the Levellers, and looked at the way in which this remarkably audacious network of activists and pamphleteers adapted and reworked the less radical thought of the parliamentarian cause which they had supported. My more recent and current work focuses particularly on the writings of the English republican writers of the seventeenth century, including John Milton, James Harrington, Marchamont Nedham, Henry Neville, and Algernon Sidney. I am working on a book on their complex and perhaps conflicted treatments of the idea of democracy, and have published several shorter pieces on them. I have an abiding interest in the reception of classical ideas in early modern Europe, which is highly relevant to this project, and I am co-editing the Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought with David Carter and Elizabeth Sawyer. I am also interested in the gendered aspects of political texts and political thought, and hope to focus on this more in future work.

Postgraduate Supervision

I would welcome enquiries on topics relating to the political thought of the English revolution, and early modern political thought more generally (particularly the reception of Greek and Roman thought, and issues of gender and the household in early modern thought).

Areas of Interest:

Research groups / Centres:

I am a member of the interdisciplinary Early Modern Research Centre, and am involved in the international network for the Legacy of Greek Political Thought, based in the Classics department.

Publications:

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Jump to: 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2016 | 2015 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2007 | 2006 | 2004

Number of items: 21.

2020

• Foxley, R. (2020) Innovation and revolution in seventeenth-century England. In: Goff, B. and Simpson, M. (eds.) Classicising Crisis. Taylor and Francis. (In Press)

2019

• Foxley, R. (2019) Imagining citizenship in the Levellers and Milton. In: Cuttica, C. and Peltonen, M. (eds.) Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689. History of European Political and Constitutional Thought. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 9789004385986
• Foxley, R. (2019) The Levellers and the English constitution in the English civil war. In: Genet, J.-P. (ed.) Des chartes aux constitutions: Autour de l'idée constitutionnelle en Europe (12e-17e siecle). Editions de la Sorbonne, Paris. ISBN 9791035102784

2018

• Foxley, R. (2018) ‘More precious in your esteem than it deserveth’? Magna Carta and seventeenth-century politics. In: Goldman, L. (ed.) Magna Carta: History, context and influence. IHR Shorts. School of Advanced Study, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, London, pp. 61-78. ISBN 9781909646889

2016

• Foxley, R. (2016) Sparta and the English Republic. Classical Receptions Journal, 8 (1). pp. 54-70. ISSN 1759-5142 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clv015

2015

• Foxley, R. (2015) From native rights to natural equality: the agreement of the people (1647). In: Hammersley, R. (ed.) Revolutionary Moments: Reading Revolutionary Texts. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 11-18. ISBN 9781472517203 doi: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474252669.0008
• Foxley, R. (2015) The logic of ideas in Christopher Hill's English revolution. Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism, 36 (3). pp. 199-208. ISSN 0144-0357 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2014.994727
• Foxley, R. (2015) Varieties of parliamentarianism. In: Braddick, M. J. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution. Oxford Handbooks in History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 414-429. ISBN 9780199695898

2013

• Foxley, R. (2013) Democracy in 1659: Harrington and the Good Old Cause. In: Tapsell, G. and Taylor, S. (eds.) The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History. Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, pp. 175-196. ISBN 9781843838180
• Foxley, R. (2013) The Levellers: radical political thought in the English Revolution. Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp304. ISBN 9780719089367
• Foxley, R. (2013) Marchamont Nedham and mystery of state. In: Mahlberg, G. and Wiemann, D. (eds.) European contexts for English republicanism. Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650–1750. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 49-62. ISBN 9781409455561
• Foxley, R. (2013) ‘Due libertie and proportiond equalitie’: Milton, democracy, and the republican tradition. History of Political Thought, 34 (4). pp. 614-639. ISSN 0143-781X

2012

• Foxley, R. (2012) Freedom of conscience and the ‘Agreements of the People’. In: Baker, P. R. S. and Vernon, E. (eds.) Foundations of freedom: The Agreements of People, the Levellers and the constitutional crisis of the English Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 117-138. ISBN 9780230542709
• Foxley, R. (2012) The Levellers: John Lilburne, Richard Overton, and William Walwyn. In: Lunger Knoppers, L. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution. Oxford Handbooks of Literature. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 272-286. ISBN 9780199560608
• Foxley, R. (2012) Radicalism in early modern England: innovation or reformation? In: Bagchi, B. (ed.) The politics of the (im)possible: utopia and dystopia reconsidered. Sage Publications, London, pp. 62-69. ISBN 9788132107347

2011

• Foxley, R. (2011) Oliver Cromwell on religion and resistance. In: Prior, C. W. A. and Burgess, G. (eds.) England's wars of religion, revisited. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 209-230. ISBN 9781409419730

2007

• Foxley, R. (2007) Royalists and the New Model Army in 1647: circumstance, principle and compromise. In: McElligott, J. and Smith, D. L. (eds.) Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 155-174. ISBN 9780521870078
• Foxley, R. H. (2007) Problems of sovereignty in Leveller writings. History of Political Thought, 28 (4). pp. 642-660. ISSN 0143-781X

2006

• Foxley, R. H. (2006) Gender and intellectual history. In: Whatmore, R. and Young, B. (eds.) Palgrave advances in intellectual history. Palgrave advances. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 189-209. ISBN 9781403939005 doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230204300
• Foxley, R. H. (2006) 'The wildernesse of tropes and figures': figuring rhetoric in Leveller pamphlets. The Seventeenth Century, 21 (2). pp. 270-286. ISSN 0268-117X

2004

• Foxley, R. (2004) John Lilburne and the citizenship of 'free-born Englishmen'. The Historical Journal, 47 (4). pp. 849-874. ISSN 1469-5103 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X04004005

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