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Politicizing domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve

Knoppers, Laura Lunger

2011

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\"Bringing together literary texts, political and household writings, and visual images, Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve traces how the language of the domestic became a powerful and contested tool of political propaganda in representations of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Oliver and Elizabeth Cromwell, and Milton's Adam and Eve. The book reconstitutes a lively seventeenth-century discourse that ranges from van Dyck portraiture to political texts such as Eikon Basilike and Kings Cabinet Opened, to cookery books attributed to Henrietta Maria and Elizabeth Cromwell, to Milton's Paradise Lost. Extensive archival materials are drawn upon, including holograph letters, legal documents, little-known portraits and early readers' marginalia. Challenging previous binaries of public and private, political and domestic, Knoppers demonstrates that the domestication of the royal family image is an important and largely unrecognized legacy of the English Revolution. The study will appeal to scholars of political and cultural history, literature, book history and women's studies\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 Portraits. / Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 In literature. / Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669 Portraits. / Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669 In literature. / Royal households Great Britain History 17th century. / Kings and rulers in art. / Kings and rulers in literature. / Manners and customs in art. / Manners and customs in literature. / Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century.
• ISBN: 9781107007888, 1107007887

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DA380.K66 2011	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE