Examining works by well-known figures of the English Revolution, including John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Margaret Fell Fox, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Hobbes, and King Charles I, Giuseppina Iacono Lobo presents the first comprehensive study of conscience during this crucial and turbulent period.

Giuseppina Iacono Lobo is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Loyola University Maryland.

"This is an important and perceptive book which sheds new light on individual authors’ engagements with these issues through close textual analysis…"

David Loewenstein, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University at University Park:

"Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England is an excellent study, one which will contribute significantly to scholarship on writing, religion, and politics in the English Revolution. It is persuasive, illuminating, and clearly written."

Bernard Capp, Department of History, University of Warwick:

"This is an important and innovative work. It displays very high standards of scholarship and analysis, is original in conception and approach, and makes a significant and stimulating contribution to its field. The arguments are persuasive, often compelling, and are presented clearly and cogently."