Monarchy, Print Culture, and Reverence in Early Modern England: Picturing Royal Subjects

ISBN-13: 9781032237206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 414 str.

Stephanie E. Koscak

Opis

This highly illustrated study examines how the emergent public sphere and the expansion of visual and textual print impacted the monarchy and loyalism in England between the execution of Charles I and the accession of George II.

Recenzje

"Koscak embraces a wide range of visual and material sources, primarily cheaply available items including portrait prints, engraved playing cards, coronation ceramics, and contemporary satire, which she navigates with adept methodological diversity. Monarchy, Print Culture, and Reverence is an elaborate, thorough, and thought-provoking text on early modern print and cultures of loyalism. Koscak has successfully distinguished herself by reiterating the benefits of methodological diversity and in the promotion of cheap, mass print to illustrate the complexity of regal visual culture, for academic and lay audiences alike."
-Charlottes Samways, Royal Studies Journal

Spis treści

Introduction  1. How to Read the King: Charles I’s Eikon Basilike and Protestant Emblematics  2. Stuart Anamorphosis: Visual Illusion and Sovereign Authority  3. "A Masterpiece of Hocus Pocus": Restoration Plots, Political Enchantment, and Visual Representation  4. Loyalism After Licensing: Print Culture, Celebrity, and Emotion  5. Royal Signs, Objects of Desire, and Visual Literacy in Eighteenth-Century London  6. Royal Pictures as Domestic Objects: Collection, Display, and Decoration.  Conclusion

O autorze

Stephanie E. Koscak is Assistant Professor of Early Modern British History at Wake Forest University.