Describing Popularity in Early Modern England

Abstract

Review article by Joad Raymond on Alastair Bellany, The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England; Peter Lake, Thomas Cogswell, and Richard Cust, eds., Politics, Religion, and Popularity; Joseph Loewenstein, The Author’s Due; Lois Schwoerer, The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist; and Robert Wilcher, The Writing of Royalism. Raymond considers recent methodological trends in Stuart history in relation to the formation of opinion in the seventeenth century. He treats the fortunes of postrevisionism in the framework of evolving notions of political culture, including recent studies of print and popularity. He proposes that libel, name-calling, and propaganda, should be treated in terms of political culture rather than merely as evidence of bias, and suggests that historical actors were aware of the nature of In the concluding section he treats anachronism with respect to royalism.   |       Luke Fawne et al., A Second Beacon Fired (London, ), ; Goodwin, A Fresh Discovery (London, []), . This content downloaded from 207.46.13.189 on Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:14:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms