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“Under our Cedar’s shadow”: royalist women poets and the English restoration

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dc.contributor.author Coussens, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned 2016-02-15T12:04:28Z
dc.date.available 2016-02-15T12:04:28Z
dc.date.issued 2007-12
dc.identifier.citation COUSSENS, C., (2007). “Under our Cedar’s shadow”: royalist women poets and the English restoration. Çankaya Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Journal of Arts and Sciences, Sayı: 8, pp.1-16 tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn 1309-6788
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/753
dc.description.abstract This paper compares the work of three lesser-known royalist women poets (Rachel Jevon, Ann Lee, and the anonymous female author of The Sacred Historie) to explore the subtle ways in which these writers connect their personal literary projects to the specific requirements of the Restoration regime. Despite the strategic emphasis on masculine authority within the numerous panegyrics addressed to the king in the aftermath of the Restoration in 1660, an alternative impulse in female-authored texts configures the return of the monarchy as an event which women are especially qualified to celebrate. In elevating conventionally feminine values, these poets were able to associate themselves with the social and political agenda of the Restoration government, which aimed to reconcile the English people to their past, and ease tensions associated with the Restoration Settlement, the General Pardon, and the Act of Oblivion. Since the civil wars had created distrust and resentment concerning politics and polemic, women poets could exploit their position as literary and political “outsiders” to justify their rehearsal of the role of “public” poet. However, in promoting their own specific interests, as loyalists whose families had suffered for the Crown, women poets also assert their own hopes for the future path of the monarchy, reminding the king of the significance of his traditional supporters, and emphasising his duty to subordinate himself to God and the English Church tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.publisher Çankaya Üniversitesi tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject Absolutism tr_TR
dc.subject Loyalty tr_TR
dc.subject Paternalism tr_TR
dc.subject Subjection tr_TR
dc.subject Forgiveness tr_TR
dc.subject Humility tr_TR
dc.subject Conservatism tr_TR
dc.subject Integrity tr_TR
dc.subject Faction tr_TR
dc.subject Anglicanism tr_TR
dc.subject Praise tr_TR
dc.title “Under our Cedar’s shadow”: royalist women poets and the English restoration tr_TR
dc.type article tr_TR
dc.relation.journal Çankaya Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Journal of Arts and Sciences tr_TR
dc.identifier.issue 8 tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage 1 tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage 16 tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü tr_TR


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