Stuart Succession Literature

Moments and Transformations

Paulina Kewes, Andrew McRae (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

388 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-877817-2 (ISBN)

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This volume considers the great era of succession literature: the years of the Stuart dynasty (1603 and 1714) in which six monarchs were crowned and one Protector was installed. It throws new light on a singularly turbulent century and engages with key debates about changes in political values and culture across the Stuart era.

Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions: to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefitting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.

Paulina Kewes is Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. She is the author of This Great Matter of Succession: England's Debate, 1553-1603 (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) and Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710 (1998), and editor or co-editor of: Plagiarism in Early Modern England (2003), The Uses of History in Early Modern England (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (2013) and Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England (2014). She is working on a study of monarchy and counsel on the early Elizabethan stage. Andrew McRae is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter. His works on the literature and cultural history of early modern England include: God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (1996), Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (2004), and Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England (2009). He is co-editor of Early Stuart Libels: An Edition of Poetry from Manuscript Sources and is collaborating on a new scholarly edition of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. Professor McRae is Dean of the Exeter Doctoral College.

Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae: Introduction
PART I. MOMENTS
1: Richard A. McCabe: Panegyric and Its Discontents: The First Stuart Succession
2: Alastair Bellany: Writing the King's Death: The Case of James I
3: Steven N. Zwicker: 'He seems a king by long succession born': The Problem of Cromwellian Accession and Succession
4: Christopher Highley: Charles II and the Meanings of Exile
5: Helmer Helmers: 1685 and the Battle for Dutch Public Opinion: Succession Literature from a Transnational Perspective
6: John West: 'A great Romance feigned to raise wonder': Literature and the Making of the 1689 Succession
7: Joseph Hone: The Last Stuart Coronation
PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS
8: Paulina Kewes: 'The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans': Robert Persons's A Conference About the Next Succession (1594/5) in Stuart England
9: Andrew McRae: Welcoming the King: The Politics of Stuart Succession Panegyric
10: David Colclough: 'I have brought thee up to a Kingdome': Sermons on the Accessions of James I and Charles I
11: Henry Power: 'Eyes without Light': University Volumes and the Politics of Succession
12: Jane Rickard: Stuart Coronations in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: History, Appropriation, and the Shaping of Cultural Identity
13: Ian W. Archer: Royal Entries, the City of London, and the Politics of Stuart Successions
14: R. Malcolm Smuts: Royal Mothers, Sacred History, and Political Polemic
15: B. J. Cook: 'Stampt with your own Image': The Numismatic Dimension of Two Stuart Successions
16: Mark Knights: The Loyal Address: Prose Panegyric, 1658-1715
17: Paul Hammond: Afterword: The Disenchantment of Monarchy

Erscheinungsdatum	07.03.2019
Zusatzinfo	14 halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 241 mm
Gewicht	762 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-877817-1 / 0198778171
ISBN-13	978-0-19-877817-2 / 9780198778172
Zustand	Neuware