Republic to restoration cuts across artificial divides between
periods and disciplines,often imposed for reasons of convenience
rather than reality. Challenging the traditional period divide of
1660, essays in this volume explore continuities with the decades
of civil war and the Republic, shedding new light on religious,
political and cultural conditions before and after the restoration
of church and king. Transdisciplinary in conception, it includes
essays on political theory, poetry, pamphlets, drama, opera, art,
scientific experiment and the Book of Common Prayer. Essays in the
volume variously show how unresolved issues at national and local
level, including residual republicanism and religious dissent, were
evident in many areas of Restoration life, and were recorded in
memoirs, diaries, plays, historical writing, pamphlets and poems.
An active promotion of forgetting, and the erasing of memories of
the Republic and the reconstruction of the old order did not mend
the political, religious and cultural divisions that had opened up
during the Civil War. In examining such diverse genres as women's
religious and prophetic writings, the publications of the Royal
Society, the poetry and prose of Marvell and Milton, plays and
opera, court portraiture, contemporary histories of the civil wars,
and political cartoons, the volume substantiates its central claim
that the Restoration was conditioned by continuity and adaptation
of linguistic and artistic discourses. Republic to restoration will
be of significant interest to academic researchers in a wide range
of related fields, and especially students and scholars of
seventeenth-century literature and history. -- .
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