Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kewes, Paulina

Description

xv, 371 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• Great Britain
• Kings and rulers > Succession
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Inheritance and succession in literature
• English literature > Early modern
• History
• 1500-1714
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Kings and rulers in literature
• Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Succession > History > 17th century
• Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

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

Call Number

JFE 19-2489

ISBN

• 0198778171
• 9780198778172

OCLC

1037061766

Title

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

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Chronological Term

1500-1714

Added Author

Kewes, Paulina, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-2489