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Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions: to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefitting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.
Contents
Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae: Introduction
PART I. MOMENTS
1: Richard A. McCabe: Panegyric and Its Discontents: The First Stuart Succession
2: Alastair Bellany: Writing the King's Death: The Case of James I
3: Steven N. Zwicker: 'He seems a king by long succession born': The Problem of Cromwellian Accession and Succession
4: Christopher Highley: Charles II and the Meanings of Exile
5: Helmer Helmers: 1685 and the Battle for Dutch Public Opinion: Succession Literature from a Transnational Perspective
6: John West: 'A great Romance feigned to raise wonder': Literature and the Making of the 1689 Succession
7: Joseph Hone: The Last Stuart Coronation
PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS
8: Paulina Kewes: 'The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans': Robert Persons's A Conference About the Next Succession (1594/5) in Stuart England
9: Andrew McRae: Welcoming the King: The Politics of Stuart Succession Panegyric
10: David Colclough: 'I have brought thee up to a Kingdome': Sermons on the Accessions of James I and Charles I
11: Henry Power: 'Eyes without Light': University Volumes and the Politics of Succession
12: Jane Rickard: Stuart Coronations in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: History, Appropriation, and the Shaping of Cultural Identity
13: Ian W. Archer: Royal Entries, the City of London, and the Politics of Stuart Successions
14: R. Malcolm Smuts: Royal Mothers, Sacred History, and Political Polemic
15: B. J. Cook: 'Stampt with your own Image': The Numismatic Dimension of Two Stuart Successions
16: Mark Knights: The Loyal Address: Prose Panegyric, 1658-1715
17: Paul Hammond: Afterword: The Disenchantment of Monarchy
