Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Conventions......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
part i Personal politics......Page 33
chapter 1 The culture of early Stuart libelling......Page 35
libels in literary culture......Page 38
disseminators and collectors......Page 48
the poetics of infamy......Page 56
chapter 2 Contesting identities: libels and the early Stuart politician......Page 63
the arts of degradation......Page 64
the politics of the body......Page 70
memory and memorialization......Page 81
‘the five senses’: writing the king’s body......Page 87
part ii Public politics......Page 95
chapter 3 Freeing the tongue and the heart: satire and the political subject......Page 97
bitter and witty knaves: satirists at court......Page 99
turbulent heads and factious spirits: unauthorized satire in the 1620s......Page 109
imagining a public sphere......Page 119
chapter 4 Discourses of discrimination: political satire in the 1620s......Page 126
the court: politicians and favourites......Page 130
political identities: definitions of difference......Page 140
our state’s a game at cards: representing the political process......Page 152
part iii The politics of division......Page 165
chapter 5 Satire and sycophancy: Richard Corbett and early Stuart royalism......Page 167
the politics and poetics of praise......Page 169
the rebellious puritan: satire of division......Page 183
the 1630s: constructing caroline royalism......Page 191
chapter 6 Stigmatizing Prynne: puritanism and politics in the 1630s......Page 200
constructing opposition: the works of bastwick, burton and prynne......Page 203
constructing seditious libel: the 1637 trial and its aftermath......Page 212
Epilogue Early Stuart satire and the Civil War......Page 220
the 1640s: writing without authority......Page 221
libelling in print: john taylor and henry walker......Page 224
john cleveland: satire of the battlefield......Page 228
andrew marvell, ‘tom may’s death’......Page 232
1. manuscripts......Page 237
2. printed books......Page 239
B. SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 245
Index......Page 257