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Additional authors

1. Kewes, Paulina

Description

1. xv, 371 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. 1500-1714
2. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
3. Inheritance and succession in literature
4. Kings and rulers in literature
5. English literature > Early modern
6. Kings and rulers > Succession
7. Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714
8. Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Succession > History > 17th century
9. Great Britain

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Call number

1. JFE 19-2489

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-359) and index.

Title

1. Stuart succession literature : moments and transformations / edited by Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae.

Publisher

1. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-359) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1500-1714

Added author

1. Kewes, Paulina, editor.

ISBN

1. 0198778171
2. 9780198778172

Research call number

1. JFE 19-2489