Helmer J. Helmers

The Royalist Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the impact of the English Civil Wars and the resulting support for the royalist cause in the Dutch Republic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781107457928
• ISBN-10: 1107457920
• Artikelnr.: 45571433

Autorenporträt

Helmer J. Helmers is Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Veni-fellow and lecturer in early modern Dutch literature and culture at the University of Amsterdam. He specializes in early modern political culture, news culture and Anglo-Dutch exchange.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the royalist republic
Part I. Public Spheres and Discursive Communities: 1. The translation of politics: civil war polemic in the Dutch Republic
2. Unity and uniformity: the first civil war and the Anglo-Scoto-Dutch puritan community
3. Emerging royalism: anti-puritanism and Anglo-Scoto-Dutch history
Part II. Maps of Meaning: 4. Eikon basilike translated: the cult of the martyr king in the Dutch Republic
5. 'When in my neighbourhood the cannons raged': war and regicide in estate poetry
6. The cry of the royal blood: revenge tragedy and the Stuart cause in the Dutch Republic
7. The English devil: stereotyping, demonology, and the First Anglo-Dutch War
8. Representing restoration: politics, providence, and theatricality in Vondel and Milton
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.