Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne PDF
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POPE AND THE DESTINY OF THE STUARTS Frontispiece:Peter Angelis,‘Queen Anne and the Knights ofthe Garter’. National Portrait Gallery. POPE AND THE DESTINY OF THE STUARTS History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne PAT ROGERS 1 1 Great Clarendon Street,Oxford Oxford University Press is a department ofthe University ofOxford. It furthers the University’s objective ofexcellence in research,scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark ofOxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc.,New York © Pat Rogers The moral rights ofthe authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published All rights reserved.No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing ofOxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law,or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization.Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope ofthe above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press,at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN--- ---- Typeset by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd.,Hong Kong Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King’s Lynn,Norfolk. for Bill Speck Acknowledgements An undertaking ofthis kind,extending over many years,inevitably owes much to the collective input ofcolleagues,friends,and students.A more particular debt is due to Paul Baines for reading draft sections ofthe book and to Brian Vickers for supplying excellent advice,some ofit heeded.Help in the preparation ofthe manu- script was provided by Elizabeth Latshaw-Foti and Michelle Lattanzio. Sections of Chapters and were given in a plenary presentation to the thirteenth DeBartolo Conference in Eighteenth-Century Studies,held at Tampa in. P.R. Contents List ofIllustrations x Abbreviations xi Chronology – xiv Introduction . Setting Composition,Manuscript,and Publishing History Binfield Wood and Bagshot Heath The Lost Domain Trumbull,the Forest,and Retirement A Superior Being Home-Felt Quiet . Biography A Change ofLife The Scriblerian Moment Early Poems Lansdowne Rebels and a Cause The Choice ofa Patron . Politics History The Stuarts Topicality Peace Triumphant Jacobitism Pious Papists and Loyal Patrons Occult Practices viii Contents . The Queen Sovereign,Court,and Country Works ofPeace Images ofMajesty The Regal Shield Vivat Regina The Ritual ofBlessing . Windsor Honours and Dishonours George and Garter The Castle and the Chapel Custom and Ceremony Storied Urns The Boast ofHeraldry . The War and the Peace Let Discord Cease Duke and Duchess The Palace The Captain Departs Foreign Fields The Four Indian Kings Southern Skies Freed Indians . Classical and Renaissance Literature Virgil and the English Georgic Ovid’s Gold and Silver Lodona Camden and Drayton Spenser,Shakespeare,and Milton . Later Literary Contexts The Legacy ofCooper’s Hill Cowley Contents ix Evelyn and Wren Sylva The Lore ofthe Seasons Addison Conclusion:Death in Arcady Sources Index Index ofPassages in Pope’s Poetry
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