Screen LibraryCommemoration and Oblivion in Royalist Print Culture, 1658-1667 /
This book explores the measures taken by the newly re-installed monarchy and its supporters to address the drastic events of the previous two decades. Profoundly preoccupied with - and, indeed, anxious about - the uses and representations of the nation s recent troubled past, the returning royalist...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50475-9 |
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This book explores the measures taken by the newly re-installed monarchy and its supporters to address the drastic events of the previous two decades. Profoundly preoccupied with - and, indeed, anxious about - the uses and representations of the nation s recent troubled past, the returning royalist regime heavily relied upon the dissemination, in popular print, of prescribed varieties of remembering and forgetting in order to actively shape the manner in which the Civil Wars, the Regicide, and the Interregnum were to be embedded in the nation s collective memory. This study rests on a broad |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(X,145pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783319504759 |
| Index Number: | DA1 |
| CLC: | G219.561.9 |
| Contents: | Chapter One: Introduction - Remembering the Civil Wars: Royalist Print Culture in Early Restoration England -- Chapter Two - Forgetting and Remembering: The Royalist Account of the Past -- Chapter Three - Saints and Demons: Making Royalist Myths -- Chapter Four - Collective Trauma and Restorative Nostalgia: Royalist Remedies -- Chapter Five: Afterword All you that be true to the King & the State, Come listen, and Ile tell you what happen d of late -- Bibliography -- Index. |