Constructing Cromwell: ceremony, portrait, and print, 1645-1661

by Knoppers, Laura Lunger

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Title Statements

Full title :Constructing Cromwell : ceremony, portrait, and print, 1645-1661 / Laura Lunger Knoppers.

Summary

"Constructing Cromwell traces the complex and shifting popular images of Oliver Cromwell from his first appearance as a public figure in the mid-1640s through the period of his power to his death and eventual disinterment after the restoration of the monarchy. The meaning and impact of this enigmatic figure have long been debated in the context of mid-seventeenth-century crisis, but contemporary representations of Cromwell have largely been neglected. Cromwellian print, Laura Knoppers argues, transformed the courtly forms of Caroline ceremony, portraiture, and panegyric and in turn complicated and altered the cultural forms available to Charles II. The book draws on extensive archival research, including manuscript sources, startling print ephemera, and visual artifacts. Placing canonical authors such as Milton, Marvell, Waller, and Dryden alongside such neglected writers as George Wither and Payne Fisher, Knoppers demonstrates how literary texts both respond and contribute to political and cultural change."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, U.K
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 249 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521662613, 9780521662611
oclc:ocm41482168
LC Classification:DA427
Dewey Decimal:941.06/4/092

Subjects

15.70 history of Europe Ceremoniën Chefs d'État -- Opinion publique. -- Gr… Criticism, interpretation, etc Cromwell, Oliver English literature -- Early modern English literature -- History and criti… Geschichte 1645-1661 Gran Bretanya -- Història -- 1649-1660,… Gran Bretanya -- Història -- 1660-1688,… Grande-Bretagne -- 1649-1660 (Commonwea… Grande-Bretagne -- 1660-1688 (Restaurat… Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1649-166… Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1660-168… Great Britain Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealt… Great Britain -- History -- Restoration… Grossbritannien Heads of state -- Public opinion Heads of state -- Public opinion. -- Gr…