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Commemoration and Oblivion in Royalist Print Culture, 1658-1667
Erin Peters
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Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JPA; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Number of Pages
183
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319504742
SKU
V9783319504742
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About Erin Peters
Erin Peters is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.
Reviews for Commemoration and Oblivion in Royalist Print Culture, 1658-1667
“Carefully researched and highly readable book, one that will be of interest not only to those interested in early modern memory, but to scholars of Restoration culture and early modern print more generally. The book’s particular strengths are its innovative use of concepts from the broader memory studies project to shed fresh light on forms of remembering (and forgetting) in ... Read more