Rebranding rule images of restoration and revolution monarchy, 1660-1714 /

"In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how...

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Author / Creator: Sharpe, Kevin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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Online Access:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Representing restored monarchy.
  • Re-presenting and reconstituting kingship. Rewriting royalty ; Redrawing regality ; Rituals of restored majesty ; A changed culture, divided kingdom and contested kingship.
  • Confessional kingship? Representations of James II. Prologue: A king represented and misrepresented ; A king of many words ; A popish face? Images of James II ; Staging Catholic kingship ; Countering 'Catholic kingship' and contesting revolution.
  • Representing revolution. Prologue: An image revolution? ; Scripting the revolution ; Figuring revolution ; A king off the stage ; Rival representations.
  • Representing Stuart queenship. Prologue: Semper Eadem? Queen Anne ; A Stuart's words: Queen Anne and the scripts of post-revolution monarchy ; Re-depicting female rule: The image of the queen ; Stuart Rituals: Queen Anne and the performance of monarchy ; Party contest and the queen.