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"Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the center of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or long-term effects, but Weil instead zeroes in on the early years when the survival of the new regime was in doubt. By encouraging informers, imposing loyalty oaths, suspending habeas corpus, and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial procedure, the Williamite regime protected itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but also put its own credibility at risk"--
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Solidly grounded in current historical scholarship, but written in an engaging manner that is accessible to non-specialists, this book will interest students of literature, gender studies, political culture and political theory as well as historians. (Manchester UP) Using sources that range from high political theory to scurrilous lampoons, Weil considers public debates about succession, resistance and divorce. She examines the allegedly fraudulent birth of the Prince of Wales in 1688, the uses to which Williamite propagandists put the image of the paradoxically sovereign but obedient Mary II, anxieties about the influence of bedchamber women on Queen Anne, the political self-image of the notorious Duchess of Marlborough, the relationship of feminism and Tory ideology in the polemical writings of Mary Astell and the scandal novels of Delaviere Manley.
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Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the center of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or long-term effects, but Weil instead zeroes in on the early years when the survival of the new regime was in doubt. By encouraging informers, imposing loyalty oaths, suspending habeas corpus, and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial procedure, the Williamite regime protected itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but also put its own credibility at risk.
Conspiracies --- History --- William --- Adversaries. --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Kings and rulers --- Succession --- Conspiracies. --- Enemies. --- HISTORY --- Politics and government. --- Succession. --- 1600-1702. --- Great Britain.
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Art --- History --- vrouwenportretten --- hofcultuur --- women [female humans] --- Charles II [King of England and Scotland]
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