Introduction: strange bedfellows: patriarchalism and revolutionary thought Part I. Revolutionary Debates: 1. Father-Kings and Amazon Queens 2. Milton's band of brothers 3. Hobbes and the absent family 4. Cromwellian fatherhood and its discontents Part II. Restoration Imaginings: Interchapter: Revolutionary legacies 5. Execrable sons and second Adams: family politics in Paradise Lost 6. Marriage and monarchy: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World and the fictions of Queenly rule 7. Marriage and discipline in early Quakerism Epilogue: the family-state analogy's eighteenth-century afterlife.
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