Street monuments and the idea of national "improvement" through tolerant coexistence in Post-Restoration Britain (1660-1770):

"This chapter explains how, in the century or so after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, the various urban political communities of Great Britain expressed their political loyalties through street monuments. As David Spadafora has argued, the main indication that an Enlightenment happene...

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1. Verfasser: Craske, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"This chapter explains how, in the century or so after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, the various urban political communities of Great Britain expressed their political loyalties through street monuments. As David Spadafora has argued, the main indication that an Enlightenment happened in the eighteenth century is the many clear signs of widespread attachment to the idea of progress. These quasi-classical statues of monarchs were, upon such terms, icons of the British Enlightenment. Cumberland’s last years were ones of protracted humiliation, as his plans to follow up his successes in the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion by assuming control of the state were foiled. The concept of a Pax Romana underscored these street monuments, and this was imperialistic by implication, even if the works themselves do not seem overtly impe rialistic. The idea of such a Pax determined that those who resisted colonisation, or were deemed beneath integration into its civilising process, were characterised barbarous."
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ISBN:978-0-367-41638-6