Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714

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In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation with public representation met the challenge of dealing with the aftermath of Cromwell's interregnum and Charles II's restoration, and how the irrevocably changed cultural landscape was navigated by the sometimes astute yet equally fallible Stuart monarchs and their successors. Contents Illustrations Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Representing Restored Monarchy PART I Re-presenting and Reconstituting Kingship PART II Confessional Kingship? Representations of James II PART III Representing Revolution PART IV Representing Stuart Queenship Epilogue Notes Index