Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print 1645–1661

ISBN-13: 9780521662611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 264 str.

Laura Lunger Knoppers (Pennsylvania State University)

Opis

Constructing Cromwell traces the complex and shifting popular print images of Oliver Cromwell from his first appearance as a public figure in the 1640s through the period of his power to his death and eventual disinterment after the restoration of the monarchy. Drawing on extensive archival research, including manuscript sources, startling print ephemera, and visual artifacts, Laura Knoppers shows how Cromwellian print transformed the courtly forms of Caroline ceremony, portraiture and panegyric. Her study also finds a new cultural context for authors such as Milton, Marvell, Dryden and Waller.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Knoppers offers a fascinating exploration of the various images and representations of him in contemporary ceremonial, portraits, and printed forms. Her interdisciplinary approach is very rewarding, and she combines the historian's awareness of specific political and intellectual contexts with the literary critic's sensitivity to the texture, style, and voice of texts.' Historical Journal

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. 'A Coffin for King Charles, A Crowne for Cromwell': royalist satire and the regicide; 2. Portraiture, print, and the republican heroic; 3. 'Riding in triumph': ceremony and print in the early Protectorate; 4. Contesting Cromwell in the late Protectorate; 5. 'I saw him dead': Cromwell's death and funeral; 6. Ceremony, print, and punishment in the early restoration; Afterword; Notes; Works cited; Index.