Stuart Succession Literature Moments and Transformations

by Kewes, Paulina; McRae, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780198778172
• ISBN10: 0198778171
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-02-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Paulina Kewes, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford and Fellow of Jesus College Oxford,Andrew McRae, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Exeter

Paulina Kewes is Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Jesus College. She has published widely on early modern drama, history, and political thought. Her books include Plagiarism in Early Modern England (2003), The Uses of History in Early Modern England (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (2013), and Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England (2014). She is working on a study of counsel and early Elizabethan drama.


Andrew McRae is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter. His works on the literature and cultural history of early modern England include: God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (1996), Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (2004), and Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England (2009). He is co-editor of Early Stuart Libels: An Edition of Poetry from Manuscript Sources and is collaborating on a new scholarly edition of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. Professor McRae is Dean of the Exeter Doctoral College.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae
PART I. MOMENTS
1. Panegyric and Its Discontents: The First Stuart Succession, Richard A. McCabe
2. Writing the King's Death: The Case of James I, Alastair Bellany
3. 'He seems a king by long succession born': The Problem of Cromwellian Accession and Succession, Steven N. Zwicker
4. Charles II and the Meanings of Exile, Christopher Highley
5. 1685 and the Battle for Dutch Public Opinion: Succession Literature from a Transnational Perspective, Helmer Helmers
6. 'A great Romance feigned to raise wonder': Literature and the Making of the 1689 Succession, John West
7. The Last Stuart Coronation, Joseph Hone
PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS
8. 'The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans': Robert Persons's A Conference About the Next Succession (1594/5) in Stuart England, Paulina Kewes
9. Welcoming the King: The Politics of Stuart Succession Panegyric, Andrew McRae
10. 'I have brought thee up to a Kingdome': Sermons on the Accessions of James I and Charles I, David Colclough
11. 'Eyes without Light': University Volumes and the Politics of Succession, Henry Power
12. Stuart Coronations in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: History, Appropriation, and the Shaping of Cultural Identity, Jane Rickard
13. Royal Entries, the City of London, and the Politics of Stuart Successions, Ian W. Archer
14. Royal Mothers, Sacred History, and Political Polemic, R. Malcolm Smuts
15. 'Stampt with your own Image': The Numismatic Dimension of Two Stuart Successions, B. J. Cook
16. The Loyal Address: Prose Panegyric, 1658-1715, Mark Knights
17. Afterword: The Disenchantment of Monarchy, Paul Hammond