From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and departures

by Janet Clare (Editor)

Overview

This book brings together a number of distinguished historians, literary and cultural scholars to explore the continuum of the English Republic and the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660. Examining the continuities between periods frequently regarded as discrete, the volume not only challenges a traditional period boundary but sheds much new light on the political, religious and cultural conditions before and after the restoration of monarchy and church. Essays address a wide range of topics including rebellion, religion and dissent, republicanism and political theory, theatre, opera and art. Canonical writers Milton, Marvell, Hobbes - are discussed alongside lesser known figures, such as the projector William Petty and the prophetess Eleanor Davies, whose work equally crossed the ideological divide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526107527
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Janet Clare is Professor of Renaissance Literature and a Founding Director of the Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Hull

Table of Contents

Introduction: from Republic to Restoration - Janet Clare

1. 1660: Restoration and revolution - Blair Worden

2. Monarchy and commonwealth: 'republican' defences of monarchy at the
Restoration - Glenn Burgess

3. Couplets, commonplaces and the creation of history in The Famous Tragedie of King Charles I (1649) and Cromwell's Conspiracy (1660) - Marissa Nicosia

4. 'Plots' and dissent: the abortive Northern rebellion of 1663 - Alan Marshall

5. Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women's political writing, 1640-80 - Amanda L. Capern

6. The battle of the books: the Authorized Version and the Book of Common Prayer at the Restoration - David Bagchi

7. Acts of oblivion: reframing drama, 1649-65 - Janet Clare

8. 'Far off the public stage': Marvell's public and private writings, 1649-65 - Keith McDonald

9. Projecting the Experiment: science and the Restoration - Ted McCormick

10. The view from the devil's mountain: Clarendon, Cressy and Hobbes, and the past, present and future of the Church of England - Paul Seaward

11. 'The Sport of Bishop-Hunting': Marvell and the neo-Laudians - Martin Dzelzainis

12. Choosing a captain back for Egypt: Milton and the Restoration - Warren Chernaik

13. The French connection: luxury, portraiture, and the court of Charles II - Laura L. Knoppers

14. Restoration opera and the failure of patronage - Bryan White

15. 'The Name of King will light upon a Tarquin': republicanism, exclusion, and the name of king in Nathaniel Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus - Lisanna Calvi

16. 'A Child of Heathen Hobbs': political prints of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis - the revision of a republican mode - Christina M. Carlson

Index

Editorial Reviews

'Clare has done a marvellous job as editor, bringing together a collection that is both diverse and cohesive, not an easy feat. The interdisciplinary approach works well as nothing in society exists in a vacuum. Therefore, I strongly recommend that instead of cherry-picking ‘the relevant chapter’ you read this collection cover to cover.'
English Journal of the English Association

'Cumulatively, the essays collected here demonstrate just how much connects the Republic with what followed, prompting us to see the familiar in a new light or to make new discoveries entirely. They also serve as a stark reminder that scholars who insist on imposing artificial (and often arbitrary) period divisions onto the materials of the seventeenth century do so at their peril.'
The Seventeenth Century

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