1st Edition
Monarchy, Print Culture, and Reverence in Early Modern England Picturing Royal Subjects
By Stephanie E. Koscak
Copyright 2020
414 Pages
71 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
412 Pages
71 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
412 Pages
71 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This richly illustrated and interdisciplinary study examines the commercial mediation of royalism through print and visual culture from the second half of the seventeenth century. The rapidly growing marketplace of books, periodicals, pictures, and material objects brought the spectacle of monarchy to a wide audience, saturating spaces of daily life in later Stuart and early Hanoverian England.... Read more
Introduction
1. How to Read the King: Charles I’s Eikon Basilike and Protestant Emblematics
2. Stuart Anamorphosis: Visual Illusion and Sovereign Authority
3. "A Masterpiece of Hocus Pocus": Restoration Plots, Political Enchantment, and Visual Representation
4. Loyalism After Licensing: Print Culture, Celebrity, and Emotion
5. Royal Signs, Objects of Desire, and Visual Literacy in Eighteenth-Century London
6. Royal Pictures as Domestic Objects: Collection, Display, and Decoration
Conclusion
Biography
Stephanie E. Koscak is Assistant Professor of Early Modern British History at Wake Forest University.
"Koscak embraces a wide range of visual and material sources, primarily cheaply available items including portrait prints, engraved playing cards, coronation ceramics, and contemporary satire, which she navigates with adept methodological diversity. Monarchy, Print Culture, and Reverence is an elaborate, thorough, and thought-provoking text on early modern print and cultures of loyalism. Koscak has successfully distinguished herself by reiterating the benefits of methodological diversity and in the promotion of cheap, mass print to illustrate the complexity of regal visual culture, for academic and lay audiences alike."
-Charlottes Samways, Royal Studies Journal
