Commemoration and Oblivion in Royalist Print Culture, 1658-1667

Commemoration and Oblivion in Royalist Print Culture, 1658-1667
ISBN-10
3319504754
ISBN-13
9783319504759
Category
History
Pages
183
Language
English
Published
2017-07-05
Publisher
Springer
Author
Erin Peters

Description

This book explores the measures taken by the newly re-installed monarchy and its supporters to address the drastic events of the previous two decades. Profoundly preoccupied with - and, indeed, anxious about - the uses and representations of the nation’s recent troubled past, the returning royalist regime heavily relied upon the dissemination, in popular print, of prescribed varieties of remembering and forgetting in order to actively shape the manner in which the Civil Wars, the Regicide, and the Interregnum were to be embedded in the nation’s collective memory. This study rests on a broad foundation of documentary evidence drawn from hundreds of widely distributed and affordable pamphlets and broadsheets that were intended to shape popular memories, and interpretations, of recent events. It thus makes a substantial original contribution to the fields of early modern memory studies and the history of the English Civil Wars and early Restoration.

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