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Book SynopsisExplores the diffuse impact of the civil wars and the Republic on the Restoration -- .
Trade Review'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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Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
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