Constructing Cromwell
Subtitle: ceremony, portrait, and print, 1645-1661
By: Laura Lunger Knoppers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Public opinion.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- In literature.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Portraits.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Death and burial.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Political satire, English -- History and criticism.; Heads of state -- Public opinion -- Great Britain.; Puritans -- Public opinion -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Historiography.; Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688.
Description: "Constructing Cromwell traces the complex and shifting popular images of Oliver Cromwell from his first appearance as a public figure in the mid-1640s through the period of his power to his death and eventual disinterment after the restoration of the monarchy. The meaning and impact of this enigmatic figure have long been debated in the context of mid-seventeenth-century crisis, but contemporary representations of Cromwell have largely been neglected.

Cromwellian print, Laura Knoppers argues, transformed the courtly forms of Caroline ceremony, portraiture, and panegyric and in turn complicated and altered the cultural forms available to Charles II. The book draws on extensive archival research, including manuscript sources, startling print ephemera, and visual artifacts.

Placing canonical authors such as Milton, Marvell, Waller, and Dryden alongside such neglected writers as George Wither and Payne Fisher, Knoppers demonstrates how literary texts both respond and contribute to political and cultural change."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-241) and index.