Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve
- Author: Laura Lunger Knoppers, Pennsylvania State University
- Date Published: June 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107417113
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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.
Read more- Situates a canonical literary text, John Milton's Paradise Lost, in a new cultural context, presenting a new interpretation of a much-studied work
- Includes a range of new archival sources, including the originals of royal correspondence, legal documents, petitions and numerous examples of early readers' annotations, allowing readers to draw upon these for their own further research
- Recovers neglected texts and discourses relating to women, gender and the household, including early cookery books and the will and household inventory of the widow of John Milton
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'A fascinating exploration of seventeenth century cookery.' The Times Literary Supplement
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- Date Published: June 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107417113
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.33kg
- contains: 40 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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
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