Fr. 140.00

Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 16581727

English · Hardback

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This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere'. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public by mapping shifts in the national 'mood'.

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Introduction
1 Petitions, oaths and addresses: subscriptional activity during the civil wars
2 Cromwell's trunks: the origins of the loyal address, 1658-61
3 Addresses, abhorrences and associations: subscriptional culture and memory in the 1680s
4 Adversarial addressing, 1701-10
5 Who were the 'public'? Identifying the addressers
6 The performance of loyalty: ritual in loyal addressing
7 From subjects to objects: the language of loyalty
Conclusion
Index

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Edward Vallance is Professor of Early Modern British Political Culture at the University of Roehampton

Summary

This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern ‘public sphere’. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public by mapping shifts in the national ‘mood’. -- .

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