num_pages: 312
description: Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration shows how the Restoration produced the concept of a national literature crucial to a new nationalist cultural enterprise: questions of national identity and difference, of what it meant to be English or British or both, came to be framed in terms of international trade and imperial ambition; and religious and royal authority gave way before the advance of a secular literary culture geared to the demands of a developing commercial and imperial nation.
language: English
title: Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History
titlecomplete: Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History
genres: History
publisher: Cambridge University Press