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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808992103321

Autore

Legon Edward

Titolo

Revolution remembered : Seditious memories after the British civil wars / / Edward Legon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-5261-2467-X

1-5261-2466-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Collana

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Disciplina

941.06

Soggetti

Sedition - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Public opinion

Great Britain History Restoration, 1660-1688

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "remember the good old cause" -- Locating seditious memories in England and Wales -- The politics of memory after the Restoration -- Seditious memories: contestation and cultural resistance -- Sharing seditious memories -- Seditious memories in Scotland and Ireland -- Mis-commemoration after the Restoration -- Seditious memories across generations -- Conclusion: burying the good old cause.

Sommario/riassunto

After the Restoration, parliamentarians continued to identify with the decisions to oppose and resist crown and established church. This was despite the fact that expressing such views between 1660 and 1688 was to open oneself to charges of sedition or treason. This book uses approaches from the field of memory studies to examine 'seditious memories' in seventeenth-century Britain, asking why people were prepared to take the risk of voicing them in public. It argues that such activities were more than a manifestation of discontent or radicalism -- they also provided a way of countering experiences of defeat. Besides speech and writing, parliamentarian and republican views are shown to



have manifested as misbehaviour during official commemorations of the civil wars and republic. The book also considers how such views were passed on from the generation of men and women who experienced civil war and revolution to their children and grandchildren.