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“Virtue’s commonwealth”: gendering the royalist cultural rebellion in the English interregnum (1649-1660)

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dc.contributor.author Coussens, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned 2016-03-15T14:11:55Z
dc.date.available 2016-03-15T14:11:55Z
dc.date.issued 2006-12
dc.identifier.citation COUSSENS. C., (2006). “Virtue’s commonwealth”: gendering the royalist cultural rebellion in the English interregnum (1649-1660). Çankaya Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Journal of Arts and Sciences Sayı: 6, pp.19-31 tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn 1309-6788
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/768
dc.description.abstract Historians and literary critics have acknowledged the ways in which royalism during the English civil war period came to be associated with the “feminisation” of Stuart court culture, and of the king’s cause as a whole. However, they have failed to attend adequately to the deliberate focus on women and female cultural authority within the literature associated with the “royalist cultural rebellion” (the movement that sought to preserve and recall the ethos and identity of the banished Stuart court). While male poets adopted a self-mocking tone when advertising their artistic dependence on female patrons, alluding self-consciously to their own “feminised” retirement, women’s active role in commissioning, preserving, disseminating and composing royalist literature suggests that their cultural importance was enhanced by the conditions of the Interregnum. Both royalist and parliamentarian propagandists exploited anti-feminist satire to condemn what they saw as illegitimate forms of government. However, royalist traditionalists overtly connected elite royalist women with the ethos and situation of the eclipsed Stuart monarchy, and sought to address a burgeoning female readership by stressing women’s advantages under the Crown. Royalist women in turn responded to these cultural constructions of royalism and femininity, creating powerful authorial identities that would remain potent after the Restoration in 1660 tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.publisher Çankaya Üniversitesi tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject Royalism tr_TR
dc.subject Cultural Rebellion tr_TR
dc.subject Retirement tr_TR
dc.subject Femininity tr_TR
dc.subject Social Status tr_TR
dc.subject Preservation tr_TR
dc.title “Virtue’s commonwealth”: gendering the royalist cultural rebellion in the English interregnum (1649-1660) 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 6 tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage 19 tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage 31 tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü tr_TR


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