Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic RevolutionKevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker University of California Press, 1998 M01 1 - 376 pages Refiguring Revolutions presents an original and interdisciplinary reassessment of the cultural and political history of England from 1649 to 1789. Bypassing conventional chronologies and traditional notions of disciplinary divides, editors Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker frame a set of new agendas for, and suggest new approaches to, the study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Customary periodization by dynasty and century obscures the aesthetic and cultural histories that were enacted between and even by the English Civil Wars and the French Revolution. The authors of the essays in this volume set about returning aesthetics to the center of the master narrative of politics. They focus on topics and moments that illuminate the connection between aesthetic issues of a private or public nature and political culture. Politics between the Puritan Revolution and the Romantic Revolution, these authors argue, was a set of social and aesthetic practices, a narrative of presentations, exchanges, and performances as much as it was a story of monarchies and ministries. Refiguring Revolutions presents an original and interdisciplinary reassessment of the cultural and political history of England from 1649 to 1789. Bypassing conventional chronologies and traditional notions of disciplinary divides, editors Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker frame a set of new agendas for, and suggest new approaches to, the study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Customary periodization by dynasty and century obscures the aesthetic and cultural histories that were enacted between and even by the English Civil Wars and the French Revolution. The authors of the essays in this volume set about returning aesthetics to the center of the master narrative of politics. They focus on topics and moments that illuminate the connection between aesthetic issues of a private or public nature and political culture. Politics between the Puritan Revolution and the Romantic Revolution, these authors argue, was a set of social and aesthetic practices, a narrative of presentations, exchanges, and performances as much as it was a story of monarchies and ministries. |
Contents
The Failure of Republican Culture | 25 |
Oliver Cromwell 1651 | 31 |
Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike 1649 | 34 |
Pious Instructions | 38 |
Charles I defends the tree of religion | 40 |
The Dragon of the Commonwealths Standing Army | 41 |
Toni Bowers | 57 |
Anne of Denmark 1688 1 | 63 |
Politics and the Habits of Appropriation | 101 |
The Politics of Song in Wordsworths Lyrical Ballads | 116 |
Bernard Mandeville | 141 |
Gender Difference and Commercial Culture | 173 |
Sir John Floyer and the Politics of Cold Bathing | 197 |
Hogarth The Company of Undertakers | 223 |
Rowlandson The ToothAche or Torment and Torture 1823 | 225 |
Hogarth The Reward of Cruelty | 226 |
Anne of Denmark with the Duke of Gloucester | 65 |
John Barrell | 75 |
Gillray Louis XVI Taking Leave of His Wife and Family 1792 | 82 |
The Kings Departure from His Disconsolate Family | 84 |
The Final Interview of Louis the Sixteenth | 86 |
British medal by Küchler that depicts the final interview 1793 | 88 |
Rowlandson Medical Dispatch or Dr Doubledose Killing Two Birds with One Stone | 227 |
Hogarth Cunicularii or The Wise Men of Godliman in Consultation 1726 | 229 |
A Natural Revolution? Garden Politics in EighteenthCentury England | 241 |
NOTES 291 | 291 |
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