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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a variety of fresh and exciting perspectives on Royalist politics, religion and culture during the Interregnum. Between them, these essays are an important milestone in the recovery of the Royalist experience of the 1650s. -- .
Table of ContentsPreface
List of abbreviations
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
1. Introduction: Rethinking Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum, Jason McElligott and David L. Smith
2. Episcopalian conformity and nonconformity, 1646-1660, Kenneth Fincham and Stephen Taylor
3. Seditious speech and popular Royalism, Lloyd Bowen
4. Artful Ambivalence? Picturing Charles I during the Interregnum, Helen Pierce
5. ‘Vailing his Crown’: Royalist criticism of Charles I’s kingship in the 1650s, Anthony Milton
6. Royalists in Exile: the experience of Daniel O’Neill, Geoffrey Smith
7. Gender, Geography and Exile: Royalists and the Low Countries in the 1650s,
Ann Hughes and Julie Sanders
8. Dramatis Personae: Royalism, theatre and the political ontology of the person in post-regicide writing, James Loxley
9. Shakespeare for Royalists: John Quarles and The Rape of Lucrece (1655), Marcus Nevitt
10. ‘The honour of this Nation’: William Dugdale and the history of St Paul’s (1658), Jan Broadway
11. Atlantic Royalism? Polemic, censorship and the ‘Declaration and Protestation of the Governour and Inhabitants of Virginia’, Jason McElligott
12. The Earl of Southampton and the lessons of interregnum finance, D’Maris Coffman
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