Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780511518959 |
| Open Library | OL8322509W |
| Total publications | 5 |
| Coverage period | 1995 - 1995 |
| Language | EN |
What specifically distinguishes Restoration culture and society from what went before and came after? And how did early modern British women and men accommodate themselves to the dramatic historical changes of the seventeenth century? This study, which brings together recent work by leading historians as well as literary and cultural critics of the period, shows how the Restoration produced the concept of a national literature crucial to a new nationalist cultural enterprise: questions of national identity and difference, of what it meant to be English or British or both, came to be framed in terms of international trade and imperial ambition; and religious and royal authority gave way before the advance of a secular literary culture geared to the demands of a developing commercial and imperial nation.
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“No one is able to explain why the people of England detest the French alliance so violently or why they wish for peace with Holland at any cost,” complained the Venetian secretary in England, Girolamo Alberti, in the autumn of 1673. Especially perplexing for contemporary observers was the sudden shift in English opinion from general support of the third Anglo-Dutch war (1672–1674) to virtually unanimous condemnation. Modern historians, while ack…
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On the morning of Sunday 9 February 1668, Samuel Pepys appears to have been in two places at once: “Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of L'escolle des Filles. ” His entanglement with this quintessential libertine text – “a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world” – had begun four weeks before in a more public s…
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Our understanding of the relationship between politics and literature in early-modern England has increased significantly in recent years, and we are now seeing the beginnings of a full investigation into the ways in which much of the literature – particularly the drama – of Restoration England was explicitly political, both in its conception and in its rhetoric. Yet despite this growing interest in the political nature of Restoration literature,…
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