Overview
- Explores the print media of the early Restoration period
- Analyses the role of remembering and forgetting in early Restoration royalist propaganda
- Consults hundreds of seventeenth-century pamphlets and broadsheets
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media (PSHM)
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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.
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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Reviews
“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 the past, the careful analysis of wide range of printed sources, and the sensitive treatment of royalism … .” (Ms. Imogen Peck, Reviews in History, history.ac.uk, October, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Erin Peters is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Commemoration and Oblivion in Royalist Print Culture, 1658-1667
Authors: Erin Peters
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50475-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50474-2Published: 18 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84407-7Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50475-9Published: 05 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 183
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Printing and Publishing, History of Early Modern Europe, Political History