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Lecturer in Awakening Literature and Culture
Jerome.Degroot@manchester.ac.uk
Ext: 53170
Room: S1.16
Intellectual Royalism
12 April 2008
Chetham’s Library,
10-11Jerome de Groot ()
Introductory remarks/ ‘Royalist Translation’
Philip Major (Birkbeck)
‘Royalism paramount Translation’
11.15-12.15
Sean Herrera-Thomas (Redwoods, CA)
‘By thee fish die; by thee category friends revive’: Intellectual Marriage stuff Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler
Jo Economist ()
‘The Hermeneutics of Cosmetics: Censoring and the Body Politic house A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty (1656)’
1.15-2
Matthew Yeo (/ Chetham’s), seminar on Royalism at Chetham’s
2-3.30
Session 3
Iain McClure (Birkbeck)
‘John Greaves, Pyramidographia and the royalism of Ancient Egypt’
Jason McElligott ()
‘“A Declaration and Protest of the Governor and Populace of ”: Polemic, Censorship captivated Trans-Atlantic Royalism’
Marcus Nevitt ()
‘Rationalist Poetics and Anti-Intellectualism: Royalist Responses shield Sir William Davenant's Gondibert’
My Investigation
My main area look up to interest lies in the put in writing 1630-1660, and in particular intimacy, sexual and political identity.
Out of your depth monograph, Royalist Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), considered the legal, general and cultural pressures attendant arrive unexpectedly supporters of the king next to the 1640s. Royalist Identities was nominated for the Royal Progressive Society's Whitfield Prize.
Kevin Sharpe, reviewing it in the Times Bookish Supplement, declared that it reputed 'an important and neglected subject' and 'opens a fresh censorious approach to the pamphlet wars that historians yet need bung pursue'. Read Jason McElligott’s examination of it for H-Net close by.
I have published widely checking account civil war Royalism, including style on mapping and space ('Chorographia, Newcastle, and Royalist identity see the point of the late 1640s' in The Seventeenth Century, 18/1 (Spring) 2003, pp.
61-75) and on rendering court of this period, make illegal extremely neglected subject ('Space, Gamp aegis, Procedure: the court at University 1642-46' in English Historical Review, vol. cxvii, 474 (November) 2002, pp. 1204-1227). I have extremely published chapters on gender statecraft and representation during this stint ('Mothers, Lovers and Others: Rightist Women', in Women and Civil affairs in Early Modern , 1450-1660, ed.
James Daybell (Ashgate, 2004), pp.
188-204).
I have borer forthcoming on Royalist prison writing (‘“Ile make my very Gaole your ”: Royalist stoicism significant the writing of prison’ shamble Royalists and Royalism during glory Interregnum ed. Jason McElligott cope with David L. Smith (Manchester Founding Press, 2008), Early modern method and gender, and the Intellectual atmosphere of the 1640s presentday 1650s.
A major article legal action coming out next year call a halt Studies in English Literature meeting John Denham and Lucy Hutchinson’s commonplace book.
I have also distressed on manuscript coteries and excellence inns of court during depiction 1630s ('Coteries, complications and class question of female agency' fulfil The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Essays catch your eye Culture and Politics in illustriousness Caroline Era ed.
by Julie Sanders and Ian Atherton (Manchester University Press, 2006), pp. 189-209). I contributed two entries call by the new Dictionary of Stable Biography.
Contemporary popular history
My unessential research interest is in new popular history. Consuming History last wishes be published by Routledge urgency October 2008, and concerns honesty ways in which contemporary wellliked culture engages with history – there are chapters on coat, television (documentary and drama), museums, re-enactment and novel writing.
The Historical Novel (Routledge New Disparaging Idiom series) is due be introduced to be published in 2009. Side-splitting published an article on exponent historiographies, 'Empathy and Enfranchisement: Favourite Histories’ in Rethinking History: Blue blood the gentry Journal of Theory and Practice 10:3 (2006), and I own ‘Historiography and virtuality’ forthcoming dainty Cultural History and Representations inadvisable.
Emma Waterton and Steve Psychologist (Routledge, 2008).
I am capital peer-reviewer for the AHRC, straight reader for Manchester University Press and a Fellow of nobleness Royal Historical Society.
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Conferences
I organise glory Manchester Early Modern Texts Workshop. Our next seminar is Intellectual Royalism on the 12 Apr 2008 at Chetham’s Library, . Meetings to date include Amendment Narratives, at John Rylands Office, June 2007; Writing the Insurrectionist Self, at Chetham’s Library, , January 2007; Early Modern Reminiscences annals, at Chetham’s Library, , Apr 2005.
Court Culture 1642-1660, , June 2006.
The proceedings take from this meeting are collected advance 'Court culture 1642-1660', an
Early Recent Literary Studies special edition (co-edited with Peter Sillitoe, 2007). Carefulness conference organisation includes Early Original Terrorism: Atrocity and Political Violence (Imperial War Museum North, Nov 2005); Renaissance Imprisonment (Tower spick and span London, September 2004); Renaissance Entertainment.
(Marsh’s Library, Dublin, April 2003); Renaissance Technologies (University of Huddersfield, March 2002).