E-grāmata: Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations

This volume is a fine example of contemporary early modern studies. * John Spurr, Swansea University, MILTON QUARTERLY * The essays collected in this volume offer an expansive, engaging, and significant resource...This volume will prove incredibly valuable to students and scholars looking at the implementation of soft power both imagined and actual. * Hope Frew-Costa, Restoration * Each of the sixteen essays in the collection will prove significant ... Stuart Succession Literature is a powerful book in the revisionist tradition. * Arthur Williamson, Huntington Library Quarterly * The diversity of the material examined here is one of the strengths of the volume, and builds on the monumental scholarship of Kevin Sharpe, to whom the collection is dedicated. This is a stimulating volume that maintains excellent standards of scholarship throughout, despite the relatively large number of contributors. * David Coast, Journal of British Studies * Stuart Succession Literature is a powerful book in the revisionist tradition. * Arthur Williamson, Huntington Library Quarterly * Stuart Succession Literature is the crowning output of a 4-year AHRC-funded project... [ A] particular strength is the sustained attention in many chapters to the use and re-use of texts over time, not infrequently for partisan ends. Stuart Succession Literature makes visible once more just how prevalent were the concerns of early modern kingship and succession in the literary imagination. * Sebastiaan Verweij, The Review of English Studies * The all-star team of contributing scholars invites high expectations and amply fulfills them. * D.M. Moore, CHOICE * [ T]he volume is a series of thoroughly engaging and impressive essays that leaves a reader in no doubt that Stuart successions mattered and that many important areas surrounded successions and succession literature remain to be pursued. * Harry Spillane, Royal Studies Journal *