New modelled cavaliers [Special edited issue of The Seventeenth Century]
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 246307-65854-1282
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The issue reframes the study of Royalism during and after the Civil Wars by substantially complicating ideas of Royalist thought and writing that position it as an Anglicised and traditional conservatism. It interrogates seventeenth-century Royalism as a contested and contentious intellectual and literary space that fostered the development of new sciences of observed knowledge; drove the wholesale expansion of women’s writing through its post-war disordering of femininity; and exercised a prevailing influence on English poetry through its largely unexamined role as a vehicle for the introduction of vernacular European poetics and poets to English poetry. Connolly and Burlinson framed this intervention in the field of study, arguing that the complexities of Royalist allegiance, culture and history suffered from enduring assumptions - provoked by Royalism’s own strategic self-presentation during the seventeenth-century – that Royalism consists of a series of transparent and self-evident ideas and allegiances. The issue comprises nine papers (100,000 words), including Connolly’s 9,000 word article “Bestiaries of Feeling: Flies, Snails, Toads and Spiders in Richard Lovelace’s Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659)” Combining rigorous historical scholarship on the period itself with insights from modern cultural theory on affect, memory and history, the collection resets agendas, deliberately offers many different viewpoints, not all concurring, and seeks to make its subject’s cultural legacies manifest. The editor established a rigorous process of peer-review ensuring every paper was read and commented on in detail by two established scholars in the critical field (a total of eighteen in all), checked the revised papers against the comments of the peer-reviewers, and acted as final peer-reviewer for the revised papers.
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