Monarchy, Print Culture, and Reverence in Early Modern England
Picturing Royal Subjects
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 15 April 2020
- ISBN 9780367374594
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages412 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 760 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 71 Illustrations, black & white; 71 Halftones, black & white 54
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Short description:
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.
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This richly illustrated and interdisciplinary study examines the commercial mediation of royalism through print and visual culture from the second half of the seventeenth century. The rapidly growing marketplace of books, periodicals, pictures, and material objects brought the spectacle of monarchy to a wide audience, saturating spaces of daily life in later Stuart and early Hanoverian England. Images of the royal family, including portrait engravings, graphic satires, illustrations, medals and miniatures, urban signs, playing cards, and coronation ceramics were fundamental components of the political landscape and the emergent public sphere. Koscak considers the affective subjectivities made possible by loyalist commodities; how texts and images responded to anxieties about representation at moments of political uncertainty; and how individuals decorated, displayed, and interacted with pictures of rulers. Despite the fractious nature of party politics and the appropriation of royal representations for partisan and commercial ends, print media, images, and objects materialized emotional bonds between sovereigns and subjects as the basis of allegiance and obedience. They were read and re-read, collected and exchanged, kept in pockets and pasted to walls, and looked upon as repositories of personal memory, national history, and political reverence.
"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 More
Table of Contents:
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
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