The Restoration England in the 1660s

by Keeble, N. H.

• ISBN13: 9780631236177
• ISBN10: 0631236171
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This cultural history challenges the standard depiction of the 1660s as the beginning of a new age of stability, demonstrating that the decade following the Restoration was just as complex and exciting as the revolutionary years that preceded it.

Author Biography

N. H. Keeble is Professor of English Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters (1982) and The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England (1987). He has compiled a two-volume Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter (1991, with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) and has edited texts by Baxter, John Bunyan and Lucy Hutchinson, as well as collections of essays on Bunyan and an anthology illustrating The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman (1994).

Table of Contents

Preface	x
List of Abbreviations	xii
A Note on Conventions, Procedures and Dates	xvii
Introduction	1	(4)
The Return of the King (1658--1660)	5	(27)
The Fall of the Protectorate (September 1658--April 1659)	5	(4)
The Rump Restored (May--September 1659)	9	(2)
Don Juan Lamberto (October--December 1659)	11	(6)
The Long Parliament Restored (January--March 1660)	17	(9)
Monarchy Restored (April--May 1660)	26	(6)
The Restoration Year (1660--1661)	32	(26)
`Past all humane policy'	32	(4)
The Royal Martyr	36	(4)
`A time of universal festivity & joy'	40	(6)
Restoration or Revolution?	46	(8)
Executions and Exhumations	54	(4)
Great Zerubbabel: Charles and the Convention (1660)	58	(27)
Images of the King	58	(6)
`Our good old Form'	64	(4)
The Declaration of Breda	68	(2)
The Act of Oblivion	70	(6)
The Convention Settlement	76	(9)
Royal Servants: Clarendon and the Cavalier Parliament (1661--1667)	85	(24)
Court and Country	85	(4)
The Cavalier Settlement	89	(6)
`The fat Scriw'ner'	95	(7)
The Costs of War	102	(3)
`The old man's going away'	105	(4)
Fathers in God: The Church of England	109	(23)
The Worcester House Declaration	109	(6)
The Act of Uniformity	115	(5)
Comprehension, Indulgence and the Clarendon Code	120	(4)
Laudians and Latitude-men	124	(5)
Giant Pope	129	(3)
`The Patience of Heroic Fortitude': Nonconformity, Sedition and Dissent	132	(27)
`Fall'n on evil days': Milton and Bunyan	132	(6)
The Experience of Persecution	138	(6)
Nonconformist Culture	144	(4)
The Licensing Act and the Press	148	(6)
Radicals, Republicans and Plotters	154	(5)
`Luxury with Charles restor'd'? The Temper of the Times	159	(24)
`A yeare of prodigies' (1665--1666)	159	(5)
`Things going to wrack'	164	(4)
The Cabal (1667--1670)	168	(3)
Porno-politics	171	(5)
A la mode	176	(7)
`Male and Female Created He Them'	183	(23)
Men and Women	183	(3)
The Weaker Vessel	186	(5)
`An honourable estate'	191	(3)
A Woman's Place	194	(4)
Men of the World	198	(8)
Afterword	206	(2)
Notes	208	(46)
Index	254