Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the
first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It
demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal
succession to the literature and political culture of the early
eighteenth century. Using previously neglected, misunderstood, and
newly discovered material, Joseph Hone shows that arguments about
Anne's right to the throne were crucial to the construction of nascent
party political identities. Literary texts were the principal vehicle
through which contemporaries debated the new queen's legitimacy. This
book sheds fresh light on canonical authors such as Daniel Defoe,
Alexander Pope, and Joseph Addison by setting their writing alongside
the work of lesser known but nonetheless important figures such as
John Tutchin, William Pittis, Nahum Tate, John Dennis, Henry
Sacheverell, Charles Leslie, and other anonymous and pseudonymous
authors. Through close historical analysis, it shows how this new
generation of poets, preachers, and pamphleteers transformed older
models of succession writing by Milton, Dryden, and others, and imbued
conventional genres such as panegyric and satire with their own
distinctive poetics. By immersing the major authors in their milieu,
and reconstructing the political and material contexts in which those
authors wrote, Literature and Party Politics demonstrates the vitality
of debates about royal succession in early eighteenth-century culture.
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ISBN
9780192543813
Publisert
2020
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1. utgave
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OUP Oxford
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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