Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 1658-1727:

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 'moo...

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1. Verfasser: Vallance, Edward 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
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Zusammenfassung: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'. Covering addressing campaigns from the late-Cromwellian to the early Georgian period, the book explores the production, presentation, subscription and publication of these texts. It argues that beneath partisan attacks on the credibility of loyal addresses lay a broad consensus about the validity of this political practice. Ultimately, loyal addresses acknowledged the existence of a 'political public' but did so in a way which fundamentally conceded the legitimacy of the social and political hierarchy. They constituted a political form perfectly suited to a fundamentally unequal society in which political life continued to be centered on the monarchy
Beschreibung:ix, 224 Seiten Faksimiles
ISBN:9780719097034

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