Heroic Mode and Political Crisis, 1660-1745 (Hardcover)

This book explores a cultural language, the heroic, that remained consistently powerful through the social, political, and dynastic turbulence of the long eighteenth century. The heroic provided an accessible and vivid shorthand for the ongoing ideological debates over the nature of authority and power, the construction of an ideal masculinity, and the shape of a new, British_rather than English_national identity. An analysis of this cultural language and its different valence over time not only unpacks the overlap between aesthetic and political debate in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, but also firmly grounds the eighteenth-century's revolution in taste and manners in the ongoing ideological debates about dynastic politics and the foundations of authority. Specifically, the book traces the making and breaking of the Stuart mythology through the development of and attacks on the heroic mode from the Restoration through the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising.

General

Imprint:	University of Delaware Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2009
First published:	April 2009
Authors:	Elaine McGirr
Dimensions:	243 x 167 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	245
ISBN-13:	978-1-61149-106-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-61149-106-1
Barcode:	9781611491067

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