The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament
Subtitle: Literary and Historical Perspectives
By: Stephen Clucas
Contributors: Davies, Rosalind
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781315197777
Subjects: History; Politics and literature; Literature and history; Politics and government; Politique et littérature; Histoire; Littérature et histoire; Politique et gouvernement; HISTORY; Great Britain. Parliament; Great Britain
Description: "This title was first published in 2003. The aim of The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament is to bring literary historians together with constitutional and state historians to reflect on the political and ideological upheavals of Britain in 1614 from various perspectives. In the aftermath of new historicism and 'revisionist' Stuart historiography the time seems right for the detailed study of highly specific historical moments and localities, and 1614 seemed particularly in need of renewed attention because few traditional historians have seriously addressed the constitutional crisis of the ill-fated parliament of that year. Literary historians, too, seemed to have failed to bring this significant political moment into focus, despite the fact that there were many literary interventions in contemporary debates of the period. The volume investigates a number of key issues of this decisive political watershed - and examines not only the disastrous parliament, but also wider problems connected to commerce and economics and the freedom of political debate."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction  -- Stephen Clucas; title: part PART I: THE ADDLED PARLIAMENT: ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES --; title: chapter 2 Bishop Berkeley at Westminster  -- Conrad Russell; title: chapter 3 The French Marriage and the Origins of the 1614 Parliament  -- Andrew Thrush; title: chapter 4 Crown Finance and Reform: The Legacy of the 'Addled Parliament' --; title: part PART II: ARENAS OF POLITICAL DEBATE IN 1614 --; title: chapter 5 'Better Becoming a Senate of Venice'? The 'Addled Parliament' and Jacobean Debates on Freedom of Speech --; title: chapter 6 'Now thou may'st speak freely': Entering the Public Sphere in 1614 --; title: chapter 7 Purging Troubled Humours: Bacon, Northampton and the Anti-Duelling Campaign of 1613-1614 --; title: part PART III: TEXT AND TRADE --; title: chapter 8 The Language of the Public': Print, Politics, and the Book Trade in 1614 --; title: chapter 9 Intervention in the Cloth Trade: Richard Hakluyt, the New Draperies and the Cockayne Project of 1614 --; title: part PART IV: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS --; title: chapter 10 Sir Walter Ralegh's Dialogue betweene a Counsellor o f State and a Justice o f Peace  -- Anna Beer; title: chapter 11 Crack Kisses Not Staves: Sexual Politics and Court Masques in 1613-1614  -- James Knowles; title: chapter 12 Civil War in 1614: Lucan, Gorges and Prince Henry  -- Jonathan Gibson; title: chapter 13 Robert Cotton's A Short View o f the Life o f Henry the Third.