Manhood and Masculinity in Early Modern England

Reinke-Williams, Tim

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“…7 Parliament was only recalled because of impending war with Scotland in 1640, and they were swiftly dismissed as they demanded the king hear their grievances. 8 the throne. 11 His brother, James, the Duke of York, was heir to the throne but he was Catholic.…”

Section: Questions Of Authority and Dishonesty 1629-1746mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…7 Sarah had been amongst James II's retinue since 1673, yet she and her husband had supported William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution, seeing James' rule as contrary to English liberties. 8 By contrast, Henry was a high-church Tory partisan. He was educated in Oxford, a Tory bastion, and had committedly preached against dissenters and for non-resistance.…”

Section: Chapter Three: the Stability Of The Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…7 They believed that the Church of England was endangered by the 1689 Act of Toleration's permission of dissenting religions, the political prominence of the Whigs and internal church divisions. 8 Catholicism was the primary enemy of the Church of England, and its appearance in herself at the head and a new book of common prayer. 10 The introduction of an English language bible and the destruction of the monasteries exemplified a Protestant shift in focus from icons to words.…”

Section: Heightened Religious Tensions C1660-1710mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…7 Bad behaviour from his family reflected poorly on the head of the family. 8 Political analogies linked the relationships between subject and state to that of a stable patriarchal family. 9 For example, the Glorious…”

Section: Chapter Five: Expectations Of Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ophelia Field highlighted Sarah's deft use of the press and instinctive understanding of her own public persona, but the suggestion that Sarah might be a celebrity was beyond the scope of her biography. 8 I intend to situate Sarah as a political celebrity and explore the emotional dimensions of her portrayal in media sources which built that celebrity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Divisive Representations: Media and Emotions in Early Eighteenth-Century English Political Celebrity

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This thesis explores how media sources represented political celebrities in early eighteenth-century England. It argues that writers deployed certain words, images and tropes to instigate deeply divisive emotional responses from their readers, pushing beyond the notion of intimacy often discussed in celebrity studies. Moreover, writers often highlighted the same facts or events about an individual to present contrasting representations. Political celebrities’ representations in media were thus often intense and conflicting: media sources shaped representations in the context of the divided and rancorous political milieu, building on emotions relating to past and current political events. This thesis investigates these emotional representations in the media via close analysis of how commenters discussed the lives of Sarah Churchill (1660–1744), Duchess of Marlborough, and the Reverend Dr. Henry Sacheverell (1674–1724). Sarah and Henry were non-traditional political celebrities: Sarah saw herself as playing a key role in court politics as advisor to Queen Anne before their contentious split in 1711. Henry used the pulpit to preach politics and was impeached for it in 1710. Sarah’s influence with Queen Anne and Henry’s outspokenness made them both lightning rods for media sources: pamphlets, books, broadsheets, satirical images, portrait reproductions, playing cards all featured Sarah and Henry as subjects. Such opinionated media sources offered specific points of view and deployed emotive language and images. Scholars have analysed the hundreds of printed materials produced in the early eighteenth century, but not via an emotional lens. Media sources helped to create the public image of Sarah and Henry, building upon or detracting from self-fashioning both Sarah and Henry attempted during years of heated political debates. This thesis is organised around themes of authority, nation, religion and gender and explores how writers discussed politics through representations of Sarah and Henry. The Glorious Revolution, notions of freedom and tyranny or even expectations about gender linked ideologies to celebrities. Equally, ideas about the state of the church and about expected masculine or feminine behaviours were fruitful routes for media sources to depict both figures in a positive and negative light. Media thus linked the public persona of the celebrity to issues much greater than themselves to elicit emotional reactions.Whether writers tried to play on positive or negative emotions, they either purposefully or inadvertently enhanced the celebrity status of Sarah and Henry. Multiple, simultaneous emotional representations explain how a celebrity could be portrayed both as a figure of adoration and a figure of disdain. Where previous studies of celebrity have discussed notions of intimacy, hinting at a positive emotional connection, this study explores the negative as well as positive emotions that could be used in emotional representations of political celebrities, more explicitly drawing out the emotional tensions of political celebrity. As such, this thesis highlights five emotions that recur throughout these media representations: anger, fear, shame, admiration and sympathy. These multiple positive and negative emotional representations co-existed even when they contradicted one another.

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Section: Questions Of Authority and Dishonesty 1629-1746mentioning

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Section: Chapter Three: the Stability Of The Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Heightened Religious Tensions C1660-1710mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Chapter Five: Expectations Of Gendermentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Divisive Representations: Media and Emotions in Early Eighteenth-Century English Political Celebrity

Boddy

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Dismantling France’s Manhood in the Prose Works of Holinshed and Sidney

Al-Mutawa

2023

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The socio-political dimension of the word ‘manhood’ is undoubtedly an indication of the superiority and advancement of the English over the rest of the neighboring countries, in particular France. These prose works define what nationalism is. Furthermore, it was also an indication that reflects the pride and supremacy of England and its citizens. This research aims to explore how the Elizabethans, through these two works, dealt with France and how manhood is deployed in their perspective, and how it is relevant to several epithets such as valor and courage. This study conducted a content analysis with the help of the excerpts from the two literary texts. The study concluded that in both literary works, the authors had shown religious and political bigotry and showed the influence of the Elizabethans. It depicted that Elizabethans were superior in having manhood as compared to the Frenchmen.

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Manhood and Masculinity in Early Modern England

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Divisive Representations: Media and Emotions in Early Eighteenth-Century English Political Celebrity

Divisive Representations: Media and Emotions in Early Eighteenth-Century English Political Celebrity

Dismantling France’s Manhood in the Prose Works of Holinshed and Sidney

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