Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and Its Aftermath, 1640-1690

238 Pages·2010·2.21 MB·English

by  Philip Major

Literatures of Exile
in the English Revolution
and its Aftermath
1640-1690
Edited by
Philip Major
with a forward by
Lisa Jardine
Literatures of exiLe in the engLish
revoLution and its aftermath, 1640–1690
original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important
yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century england’s political and cultural
landscape: exile. through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as
physical departure from england – to france, germany, the Low Countries and
america – and as inner, mental withdrawal. in the process, a strikingly wide variety
of contemporary sources comes under scrutiny, including letters, diaries, plays,
treatises, translations and poetry. the extent to which the richness and disparateness
of these modes of writing militates against or constructs a recognizable ‘rhetoric’ of
exile is one of the book’s overriding themes. also under consideration is the degree
to which exilic writing in this period is intended for public consumption, a product
of private reflection, or characterized by a coalescence of the two. Importantly, this
volume extends the chronological range of the english revolution beyond 1660 by
demonstrating that exile during the restoration formed a meaningful continuum
with displacement during the civil wars of the mid-century. this in-depth and
overdue study of prominent and hitherto obscure exiles, conspicuously diverse in
political and religious allegiance yet inextricably bound by the shared experience
of displacement, will be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.
Philip major teaches english at Birkbeck College, university of London. he
has published widely on seventeenth-century literature and is currently writing a
monograph on the works of thomas, 3rd Lord fairfax.
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Literatures of exile
in the english revolution
and its aftermath, 1640–1690
edited by
PhiLiP major
Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
© Philip major and the contributors 2010
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Literatures of exile in the english revolution and its aftermath, 1640–1690. –
(transculturalisms, 1400–1700)
1. exiles’ writings, english – history and criticism. 2. exile (Punishment) in literature –
history – 17th century. 3. great Britain – history – Commonwealth and Protectorate,
1649–1660 – historiography. 4. great Britain – history – Charles ii, 1660–1685 –
historiography.
i. series ii. major, Philip.
820.9’3552’09032–dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
major, Philip.
Literatures of exile in the english revolution and its aftermath, 1640–1690 / by Philip
major with a foreword by Lisa jardine.
p. cm. – (transculturalisms, 1400–1700)
includes bibliographical references and index.
1. great Britain—history—Civil War, 1642–1649—Literature and the revolution. 2. great
Britain—history—Puritan revolution, 1642–1660—Literature and the revolution.
3. english literature—early modern, 1500–1700—history and criticism. 4. exile
(Punishment) in literature. 5. exiles’ writings, english—history and criticism. 6. exiles
in literature. 7. revolutionary literature, english—history and criticism. 8. royalists in
literature. 9. Literature and history—great Britain—history—17th century. i. title.
Pr435.m28 2010
820.9’358—dc22
2010005635
isBn 9781409400066 (hbk)
isBn 9780754698470 (ebk)II
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations xv
foreword xvii
Lisa Jardine
introduction 1
Philip Major
1 exiles, expatriates and travellers: towards a Cultural
and intellectual history of the english abroad, 1640–1660 15
Timothy Raylor
2 disruptions and evocations of family amongst royalist exiles 45
Ann Hughes and Julie Sanders
3 a Broken Broker in antwerp: William aylesbury and the
duke of Buckingham’s goods, 1648–1650 65
Katrien Daemen-de Gelder and J.P. Vander Motten
4 a tortoise in the shell: royalist and anglican experience
of exile in the 1650s 79
Marika Keblusek
5 exile, apostasy and anglicanism in the english revolution 91
Sarah Mortimer
6 exile in europe during the english revolution and its
Literary impact 105
Nigel Smith
7 abraham Cowley and the ends of Poetry 119
Christopher D’Addario
8 ‘not sure of safety’: hobbes and exile 133
James Loxley
vi Literatures of Exile
9 ‘a poor exile stranger’: William goffe in new england 153
Philip Major
10 ‘the good old cause for which i suffer’: the Life of a
regicide in exile 167
Jason Peacey
Works Cited 181
Index 203
List of figures
2.1 margaret Cavendish, Nature’s Pictures (1656).
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List of Contributors
Christopher D’Addario is assistant Professor of english at towson university,
where he teaches early modern english literature. in addition to other essays, he
is the author of Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature (Cambridge,
2007). he is currently working on a study of the aesthetics of everyday life in
seventeenth-century London.
Katrien Daemen-de Gelder is a postdoctoral researcher at ghent university.
her primary areas of interest include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scottish
and english literature, particularly anglo- and scoto-dutch relations during the
reign of james vi and i (1566–1625). she is currently conducting research with
jean-Pierre vander motten into the literary and intellectual impact of the english
exiles in the spanish netherlands between 1603 and 1688.
Ann Hughes is Professor of early modern history at the university of Keele, and
has published widely on the religion, politics and print culture of mid-seventeenth-
century england. her latest book is Gangraena and the Struggle for the English
Revolution (oxford, 2004).
Marika Keblusek is Professor of Book history at the university of amsterdam
and lecturer in art history at Leiden university. she recently co-curated the
exhibition ‘royalist refugees: William and margaret Cavendish at the rubenshuis,
1648–1660’ at the rubenshuis museum, antwerp. she is working on several book
projects, including ‘Minds of Winter’: Literary Life and Book Culture of Royalists
in Exile in the Netherlands, 1642–1660, and Double Agents: Cultural and Political
Brokerage in Early Modern Europe. in 2006 Your Humble Servant: Agents in
Early Modern Europe (ed. and introduction) was published.
James Loxley is senior Lecturer in english Literature at the university of
edinburgh. he is the author of Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars:
The Drawn Sword (macmillan, 1997), The Complete Critical Guide to Ben
Jonson (routledge, 2002) and Performativity (routledge, 2006). Published
articles include: ‘on exegetical duty: historical Pragmatics and the grammar of
the Libel’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 69 (2006); ‘Cavalier Poetry’, in david
scott Kastan, ed., The Oxford Encyclopaedia of British Literature (new York:
oxford university Press, 2006); and ‘Performatives and Performativity: Ben
jonson makes his excuses’, Renaissance Drama, 33 (2004).