Stuart Succession Literature
Moments and Transformations
Andrew McRae editor Paulina Kewes editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:13th Dec '18
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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.
This volume is a fine example of contemporary early modern studies. * John Spurr, Swansea University, MILTON QUARTERLY *
The essays collected in this volume offer an expansive, engaging, and significant resource...This volume will prove incredibly valuable to students and scholars looking at the implementation of soft power both imagined and actual. * Hope Frew-Costa, Restoration *
Each of the sixteen essays in the collection will prove significant ... Stuart Succession Literature is a powerful book in the revisionist tradition. * Arthur Williamson, Huntington Library Quarterly *
The diversity of the material examined here is one of the strengths of the volume, and builds on the monumental scholarship of Kevin Sharpe, to whom the collection is dedicated. This is a stimulating volume that maintains excellent standards of scholarship throughout, despite the relatively large number of contributors. * David Coast, Journal of British Studies *
Stuart Succession Literature is a powerful book in the revisionist tradition. * Arthur Williamson, Huntington Library Quarterly *
Stuart Succession Literature is the crowning output of a 4-year AHRC-funded project... [A] particular strength is the sustained attention in many chapters to the use and re-use of texts over time, not infrequently for partisan ends. Stuart Succession Literature makes visible once more just how prevalent were the concerns of early modern kingship and succession in the literary imagination. * Sebastiaan Verweij, The Review of English Studies *
The all-star team of contributing scholars invites high expectations and amply fulfills them. * D.M. Moore, CHOICE *
[T]he volume is a series of thoroughly engaging and impressive essays that leaves a reader in no doubt that Stuart successions mattered and that many important areas surrounded successions and succession literature remain to be pursued. * Harry Spillane, Royal Studies Journal *
ISBN: 9780198778172
Dimensions: 241mm x 164mm x 27mm
Weight: 762g
388 pages