Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration

Literature, Drama, History

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by Gerald MacLean

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published May 1995, 308 pages, paper

ISBN 052147566x

Questions of national identity and difference came to be framed in terms of international trade and imperial ambition during the Stuart Restoration. Thus 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.