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This volume considers the great era of succession literature: the years of the Stuart dynasty (1603 and 1714) in which six monarchs were crowned and one Protector was installed. It throws new light on a singularly turbulent century and engages with key debates about changes in political values and culture across the Stuart era.
List of contents
- Introduction
- PART I. MOMENTS
- 1: Richard A. McCabe: Panegyric and Its Discontents: The First Stuart Succession
- 2: Alastair Bellany: Writing the King's Death: The Case of James I
- 3: Steven N. Zwicker: 'He seems a king by long succession born': The Problem of Cromwellian Accession and Succession
- 4: Christopher Highley: Charles II and the Meanings of Exile
- 5: Helmer Helmers: 1685 and the Battle for Dutch Public Opinion: Succession Literature from a Transnational Perspective
- 6: John West: 'A great Romance feigned to raise wonder': Literature and the Making of the 1689 Succession
- 7: Joseph Hone: The Last Stuart Coronation
- PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS
- 8: Paulina Kewes: 'The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans': Robert Persons's A Conference About the Next Succession (1594/5) in Stuart England
- 9: Andrew McRae: Welcoming the King: The Politics of Stuart Succession Panegyric
- 10: David Colclough: 'I have brought thee up to a Kingdome': Sermons on the Accessions of James I and Charles I
- 11: Henry Power: 'Eyes without Light': University Volumes and the Politics of Succession
- 12: Jane Rickard: Stuart Coronations in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: History, Appropriation, and the Shaping of Cultural Identity
- 13: Ian W. Archer: Royal Entries, the City of London, and the Politics of Stuart Successions
- 14: R. Malcolm Smuts: Royal Mothers, Sacred History, and Political Polemic
- 15: B. J. Cook: 'Stampt with your own Image': The Numismatic Dimension of Two Stuart Successions
- 16: Mark Knights: The Loyal Address: Prose Panegyric, 1658-1715
- 17: Paul Hammond: Afterword: The Disenchantment of Monarchy
About the author
Paulina Kewes is Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. She is the author of
This Great Matter of Succession: England's Debate, 1553-1603 (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) and
Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710 (1998), and editor or co-editor of:
Plagiarism in Early Modern England (2003),
The Uses of History in Early Modern England (2006),
The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (2013) and
Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England (2014). She is working on a study of monarchy and counsel on the early Elizabethan stage.
Andrew McRae is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter. His works on the literature and cultural history of early modern England include:
God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (1996),
Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (2004), and
Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England (2009). He is co-editor of
Early Stuart Libels: An Edition of Poetry from Manuscript Sources and is collaborating on a new scholarly edition of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. Professor McRae is Dean of the Exeter Doctoral College.
Summary
This volume considers the great era of succession literature: the years of the Stuart dynasty (1603 and 1714) in which six monarchs were crowned and one Protector was installed. It throws new light on a singularly turbulent century and engages with key debates about changes in political values and culture across the Stuart era.
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[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.
