Image Government: Monarchical Metamorphoses in English Literature and Art, 1649-1702"Image Government traces some of the cranks and windings, ebbings and flowings that lead from Charles I's downfall to Queen Anne's coronation as they are registered in printed literature and visual art. The poetry of Marvel and Dryden, multifarious political writings by greater and lesser figures, and the work of significant divines like the Whiggish Burnet, and Hickes, doyen of the nonjurers, are all used to show how the expression of ideas changed in the second half of the seventeenth century. While showing his awareness of the contributions of modern scholarship, the author displays a magisterial grasp of primary sources, often little exploited. The book explores aspects of sovereignty and the underlying principles of political cohesion for the benefit of students and scholars of later seventeenth-century literature, history and art."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 67
... France ( the emphases are his ) , the comment that , unlike their modern French counterparts , These disturbers were not so much like men usurping power , as asserting their natural place in society . Their rising was to illuminate and ...
... France ( the emphases are his ) , the comment that , unlike their modern French counterparts , These disturbers were not so much like men usurping power , as asserting their natural place in society . Their rising was to illuminate and ...
Page 90
... France conqu❜ring Henry ' , and the ignominy of ' queene Marye's days ' had been expunged . Dunkirk , in 1658 , would have seemed an acquisition well worth harping upon . But the end was bathos . In 1662 it was sold , not back to ...
... France conqu❜ring Henry ' , and the ignominy of ' queene Marye's days ' had been expunged . Dunkirk , in 1658 , would have seemed an acquisition well worth harping upon . But the end was bathos . In 1662 it was sold , not back to ...
Page 158
... France is crowded with Flatterers , who make no other Prayers then for the Glory of their Monarch , and sing no other Hymns then in his Praise ; all their Opera's sound forth the Grandeur and Conquests of their new Deity , Jupiter ...
... France is crowded with Flatterers , who make no other Prayers then for the Glory of their Monarch , and sing no other Hymns then in his Praise ; all their Opera's sound forth the Grandeur and Conquests of their new Deity , Jupiter ...
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Image Government: Monarchical Metamorphoses in English Literature and Art ... T. R. Langley No preview available - 2001 |
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