Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain: Essays Presented to Lois Green Schwoerer

Whether looking back to the early career of Thomas Hobbes, the antecedents of patriarchalism and ancient constitutionalism, or the trial and execution of Charles I, they see the Restoration and Revolution in the broader context of the whole seventeenth century.Professor HOWARD NENNER teaches in the Department of History, Smith College.Contributors: MARK GOLDIE, JANELLE GREENBERG, TIM HARRIS, HOWARD NENNER, LINDA LEVY PECK, J.G.A. POCOCK, GORDON SCHOCHET, HILDA L, SMITH, STEVEN ZWICKER, MELINDA ZOOK, LOISGREEN SCHWOERER.

Part 1 The politics of violence and revolution: "wicked and turbulent though it was" - the Restoration era in perspective, J.G.A. Pocock; the trial of the regicides - retribution and treason in 1660, Howard Nenner; the Hilton gang and the purge of London in the 1680s, Mark Goldie; violence, martyrdom and radical politics - rethinking the Glorious Revolution, Melinda Zook; reluctant revolutionairies? - the Scots and the Revolution of 1688-89, Tim Harris. Part 2 The play of political imagination: politics and memory - Sharnborn's case and the role of the Norman Conquest in Stuart political thought, Janelle Greenberg and Laura Marin; "a general war amongst the men but none amongst the women" - political differences between Margaret and William Cavendish; constructing a new context for Hobbes studies, Linda Levy Peck; irony, modernity and miscellany - politics and aesthetics in the Stuart Restoration, Steven N. Zwicker; the shape of Restoration England - a response, Lois Green Schwoerer.