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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.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...Naturalis Principia Mathematica, --announcing his great discovery of the Laws of Gravitation. S. Miscellaneous. Robert Burton.--Born at Lindley, Leicestershire, --educated at Oxford, --spent most of his time secluded within his college, --of a melancholy cast of mind, --foretold correctly the time of his decease. Work: --The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Democritus Junior. Sir Thomas Browne.--A Norwich physician, --born in London. Works: --Religio Medici, On Vulgar Errors, Urn Burial. SCIENTIFIC MEN, NOT AUTHORS. Samuel Horrocks.--A gifted astronomer, --died young. Thomas Sydenham.--A physician, --" applied the Baconian principle of philosophy to medicine," by treating diseases according to the experience gained by observation, --celebrated for his skill in small-pox and fever cases. John Ray.--Son of an Essex blacksmith, --an accomplished naturalist, --parent of our modern Zoology, Physiology, and Anatomy, --wrote scientific works, which do not belong to the period, --one of the founders of the Royal Society. Halley, --astronomer. Flamsteed, --first Astronomer-Royal. (Notices of others in this class will be found under "Inventions, Discoveries, and Improvements" in each reign.) ARTISTS. Architects. Inigo Jones--d. 1620, --introduced the Palladian Style of architecture, --the Banquet House of Whitehall being his finest work. Sir Christopher Wren, --after the Great Fire designed over fifty churches in London, St Paul's Cathedral being his masterpiece. Painters. Rubens.--The finest of the Flemish artists, --patronized by Charles I. Vandyke.--A giftedDutch portrait-painter, --patronized by Charles and the nobility, nearly all the portraits of the Royal Family and of Cavaliers, extant, having been executed by him. Sir Peter Lely.--A.
An expert in Stuart England examines the sexual lives of Britons in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in this frank, informative, and revealing history. Acclaimed Stuart historian Andrea Zuvich explores the sexual mores of Stuart Britain, including surprising beliefs, bizarre practices, and ingenious solutions for infertility, impotence, sexually transmitted diseases, and more. Along the way, she reveals much about the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior. Zuvich sheds light not only on the saucy love lives of the Royal Stuarts, but also on the dark underbelly of the Stuart era with histories of prostitution, sexual violence, infanticide, and sexual deviance. She looks at everything from what was considered sexually attractive to the penalties for adultery, incest, and fornication. Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain touches on the fashion, food, science, art, medicine, magic, literature, love, politics, faith and superstition of the day.
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.
By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as well as introductory and explanatory material.