Monarchy, print culture, and reverence in early modern England: picturing royal subjects

"This study examines how the emergent public sphere and the rapid expansion of visual and textual print impacted the monarchy and loyalism in England between the execution of Charles I and the accession of George II. Utilizing a contextualized and interdisciplinary analysis of visual and materi...

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1. Verfasser: Koscak, Stephanie Elaine (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Routledge 2020
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies
Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies
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Zusammenfassung:"This study examines how the emergent public sphere and the rapid expansion of visual and textual print impacted the monarchy and loyalism in England between the execution of Charles I and the accession of George II. Utilizing a contextualized and interdisciplinary analysis of visual and material objects and new approaches to textual materiality, it argues that the political endurance and popular appeal of the crown is in part explained by its sophisticated incorporation within cultures of commerce and print that materialized affective bonds between sovereigns and subjects. Koscak demonstrates that images, including emblematic iconography, portrait prints, hanging signs, graphic satire, and playing cards, were fundamental components of later Stuart and early Hanoverian political culture and the public sphere. Despite the fractious nature of party politics, the commercial stigma of the press, and instabilities of partisan meaning, royal texts and images facilitated dynamic and flexible cultures of allegiance. Books, pictures, and material objects invited interpretation and enchantment, and they were treated as repositories of domestic memory, national history, and political reverence"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 30, 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 398 pages) illustrations.
ISBN:9781000038545
1000038548
9780429354618
0429354614
9781000038521
1000038521
9781000038538
100003853X

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