Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration by Gerald Maclean
What specifically distinguishes Restoration culture and society from what went before and came after? And how did early modern British women and men accommodate themselves to the dramatic historical changes of the seventeenth century? This study, which brings together recent work by leading historians as well as literary and cultural critics of the period, shows how the Restoration produced the concept of a national literature crucial to a new nationalist cultural enterprise: questions of national identity and difference, of what it meant to be English or British or both, came to be framed in terms of international trade and imperial ambition; and religious and royal authority gave way before the advance of a secular literary culture geared to the demands of a developing commercial and imperial nation.
"The high level of scholarship now being produced is well represented in Gerald MacLean's new collection of essays...The book as a whole is well-presented..." D.R. Woolf, Dalhousie Review
"This entertaining collection of essays accomplishes two significant feats: it offers a strong set of individual pieces on particular late seventeenth-century writers that, when read together, invite one to speculate more generally on the ways in which 'the restoration' has been delineated and investigated by different academic disciplines....Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration handsomely delivers on its openeing promise to cause us to think more deeply about the ways in which individuals respond to dramatic national changes and the ways we study them." Margaret J. M. Ezell, Modern Philology
"This entertaining collection of essays accomplishes two significant feats: it offers a strong set of individual pieces on particular late seventeenth-century writers that, when read together, invite one to speculate more generally on the ways in which 'the restoration' has been delineated and investigated by different academic disciplines....Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration handsomely delivers on its openeing promise to cause us to think more deeply about the ways in which individuals respond to dramatic national changes and the ways we study them." Margaret J. M. Ezell, Modern Philology
Gerald MacLean is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter in the UK, co-director of Exeter Turkish Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Historical Society of London. A scholar of early-modern English literature and its historical contexts, since 1993 he has devoted his research to the many works published in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries describing the Ottoman Empire, and to charting the nature and range of East-West encounters during the early modern period. His books, Looking East: English Writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 (2007), and The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720 (2004) have both appeared in Turkish translation. He is also editor of Re-Orienting the Renaissance (2005), and Writing Turkey: Explorations in Turkish History, Politics and Cultural Identity (2006). He is a founding member of The Evliya Celebi Way Project, an international group of scholars and equestrians who, in 2009, travelled across western Anatolia on horseback following the route of the great Ottoman travel writer and historian. This project of historical re-enactment has been supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and has led to UNESCO naming 2011 the Year of Evliya Celebi.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521475662 |
| ISBN 10 | 052147566X |
| Title | Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration |
| Author | Gerald Maclean |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1995-04-27 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
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