Royalist Identities shifts the emphasis from the question 'What is Royalism?' to 'What did Royalism want to be?' The texts analyzed show how Royalism was concerned with the construction of a set of binary roles and behavioural models designed to perpetuate a certain paradigm of social stability. de Groot deploys theories of identity to analyze the literature and culture of this important period- including the works of Milton, Marvell, Herrick and Cowley, amongst others - and in particular to discuss the formation and construction of an ideologically inflected cultural and social identity.

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'Jerome de Groot's subject, an important and neglected one, is the Royalists' search, after the outbreak of civil war, for discursive modes and strategies that might structure a new identity and garner support for their party...Royalist Identities opens a fresh critical approach to the pamphlet wars that historians yet need to pursue.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Royalist Identities is to be welcomed for its redress of a historiographical balance that has favoured the Roundheads and for its address to the tropes and textual strategies of the pamphlet exchange through years of shifting circumstances...[it] opens a fresh critical approach to the pamphlet wars that historians yet need to pursue.' - Kevin Sharpe, Times Higher Education Supplement

About the author

JEROME DE GROOT has lectured in English at the University of Huddersfield, University of Wales, Bangor and University College, Dublin. He has published chapters in books and articles in The Seventeenth Century and The English Historical Review, and held research fellowships at Oxford, Harvard, UCLA and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Royalist Identities
Authors: Jerome Groot
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502055
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1900-7Published: 10 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51439-7Published: 01 January 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50205-5Published: 10 November 2004
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 222
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Early Modern Europe

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Royalisms? Constructing and disrupting Royalist identity

‘… but the Picture, but the signe of a King’: the legal space of self and nation

The Royalist reader

‘The late strangenesse betweene us’: invasion, excrement and recognition

Gorgeous Gorgons: Royalist Women

Fragmentation of the body and the end of identity

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