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Book SynopsisRoyalist Identities shifts the emphasis from the question 'What is Royalism?' to 'What did Royalism want to be?' The texts analyzed show how Royalism was concerned with the construction of a set of binary roles and behavioural models designed to perpetuate a certain paradigm of social stability.
Trade Review'Jerome de Groot's subject, an important and neglected one, is the Royalists' search, after the outbreak of civil war, for discursive modes and strategies that might structure a new identity and garner support for their party...Royalist Identities opens a fresh critical approach to the pamphlet wars that historians yet need to pursue.' - Times Literary Supplement
'Royalist Identities is to be welcomed for its redress of a historiographical balance that has favoured the Roundheads and for its address to the tropes and textual strategies of the pamphlet exchange through years of shifting circumstances...[it] opens a fresh critical approach to the pamphlet wars that historians yet need to pursue.' - Kevin Sharpe, Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Introduction 'But the Picture, but the signe of a King': The Legal Space of Self and Nation The Royalist Reader 'The late strangenesse betweeene us': Invasion, Excrement and Recognition Gorgeous Gorgons: Royalist Women Fragmentation of the Body and the End of Identity Notes Bibliography Index
