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001 2011021223
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008 110517s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781107007888 (hardback)
020 $a1107007887 (hardback)
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050 00 $aDA380$b.K66 2011
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100 1 $aKnoppers, Laura Lunger.
245 10 $aPoliticizing domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve /$cLaura Lunger Knoppers.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axiv, 225 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-215) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The sceptre and the distaff: mapping the domestic in Caroline royal family portraiture; 2. 'Deare heart': framing the royal couple in The Kings Cabinet Opened; 3. Material legacies: family matters in Eikon Basilike and Eikonoklastes; 4. Recipes for royalism: Henrietta Maria and The Queens Closet Opened; 5. 'Protectresse and a drudge': the court and cookery of Elizabeth Cromwell; 6. 'No fear lest dinner coole': Milton's housewives and the politics of Eden; Afterword; Works cited.
520 $a"Bringing together literary texts, political and household writings, and visual images, Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve traces how the language of the domestic became a powerful and contested tool of political propaganda in representations of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Oliver and Elizabeth Cromwell, and Milton's Adam and Eve. The book reconstitutes a lively seventeenth-century discourse that ranges from van Dyck portraiture to political texts such as Eikon Basilike and Kings Cabinet Opened, to cookery books attributed to Henrietta Maria and Elizabeth Cromwell, to Milton's Paradise Lost. Extensive archival materials are drawn upon, including holograph letters, legal documents, little-known portraits and early readers' marginalia. Challenging previous binaries of public and private, political and domestic, Knoppers demonstrates that the domestication of the royal family image is an important and largely unrecognized legacy of the English Revolution. The study will appeal to scholars of political and cultural history, literature, book history and women's studies"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"On the evidence of novels, poetry and paintings, the Victorians were obsessed with the English Revolution. Imagining the British past as prototype of an idealized present, the Victorian cult of domesticity drew upon the image of the Caroline royal family. Frederick Goodall's 1853 An Episode in the Happier Days of Charles I (fig. 1) depicts Charles I, Henrietta Maria and their young children feeding geese, while on a royal shallop barge moving slowly down the Thames. A characteristically van Dyckian Charles I, sporting long hair, brushed-up moustache and pointed beard, dressed in a black silk doublet with falling ruff collar, and wearing his lesser George medallion, stands over his seated wife and daughter. Henrietta Maria, her hair stylishly dressed in side ringlets, wears a deep rose satin gown with an elaborate collar and large, puff sleeves; holding a King Charles spaniel in her lap, the queen attends closely to her rosy and plump-cheeked young daughter, who is feeding two large swans"--$cProvided by publisher.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y17th century.
650 0 $aRoyal households$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century.
600 00 $aCharles$bI,$cKing of England,$d1600-1649$xPortraits.
600 00 $aCharles$bI,$cKing of England,$d1600-1649$xIn literature.
600 00 $aHenrietta Maria,$cQueen, consort of Charles I, King of England,$d1609-1669$xPortraits.
600 00 $aHenrietta Maria,$cQueen, consort of Charles I, King of England,$d1609-1669$xIn literature.
650 0 $aKings and rulers in art.
650 0 $aKings and rulers in literature.
650 0 $aManners and customs in art.
650 0 $aManners and customs in literature.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/07888/cover/9781107007888.jpg