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Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England

Alastair Bellany
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      This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the seventeenth century's most notorious and sensational court scandal - the Overbury murder. The book challenges earlier approaches to the history of court scandal, rejecting both the assumption that it inevitably undermined royal authority and the tendency to dismiss scandal as politically insignificant. The book adopts a multi-layered, interdisciplinary approach to the Overbury affair and its complex political meanings. It explores the factional politics that made and destroyed Overbury and his murderers, reconstructs the news culture through which information about the scandal circulated, analyses the creation and composition of the early Stuart 'public', and decodes the representations of the affair that were produced and consumed during 1615–16 and in subsequent decades. By situating the Overbury case both in short- and long-term political contexts, the book offers a reading of court scandal's place in the cultural origins of the English revolution.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Alastair Bellany EAN: 9780521782890 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 660 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-01-10 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      England, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, European history

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      English-born Alastair Bellany was educated at Oxford and at Princeton, NJ. He was a lecturer at Stanford University, 1995–6, and is the author of several articles in both journals and edited books. The Politics of Court Scandal is his first book.
      This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the seventeenth century's most notorious and sensational court scandal - the Overbury murder. The book challenges earlier approaches to the history of court scandal, rejecting both the assumption that it inevitably undermined royal authority and the tendency to dismiss scandal as politically insignificant. The book adopts a multi-layered, interdisciplinary approach to the Overbury affair and its complex political meanings. It explores the factional politics that made and destroyed Overbury and his murderers, reconstructs the news culture through which information about the scandal circulated, analyses the creation and composition of the early Stuart 'public', and decodes the representations of the affair that were produced and consumed during 1615–16 and in subsequent decades. By situating the Overbury case both in short- and long-term political contexts, the book offers a reading of court scandal's place in the cultural origins of the English revolution.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Alastair Bellany EAN: 9780521782890 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 660 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-01-10 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      England, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, European history

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      English-born Alastair Bellany was educated at Oxford and at Princeton, NJ. He was a lecturer at Stanford University, 1995–6, and is the author of several articles in both journals and edited books. The Politics of Court Scandal is his first book.

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