Knoppers, Laura Lunger. Politicizing domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve

Folger bibliographic ID: 264003
Folger call number: DA380 .K66 2011
Folger holdings ID: 349568

"On the evidence of novels, poetry and paintings, the Victorians were obsessed with the English Revolution. Imagining the British past as prototype of an idealized present, the Victorian cult of domesticity drew upon the image of the Caroline royal family. Frederick Goodall's 1853 An Episode in the Happier Days of Charles I (fig. 1) depicts Charles I, Henrietta Maria and their young children feeding geese, while on a royal shallop barge moving slowly down the Thames. A characteristically van Dyckian Charles I, sporting long hair, brushed-up moustache and pointed beard, dressed in a black silk doublet with falling ruff collar, and wearing his lesser George medallion, stands over his seated wife and daughter. Henrietta Maria, her hair stylishly dressed in side ringlets, wears a deep rose satin gown with an elaborate collar and large, puff sleeves; holding a King Charles spaniel in her lap, the queen attends closely to her rosy and plump-cheeked young daughter, who is feeding two large swans"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-215) and index

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The sceptre and the distaff: mapping the domestic in Caroline royal family portraiture; 2. 'Deare heart': framing the royal couple in The Kings Cabinet Opened; 3. Material legacies: family matters in Eikon Basilike and Eikonoklastes; 4. Recipes for royalism: Henrietta Maria and The Queens Closet Opened; 5. 'Protectresse and a drudge': the court and cookery of Elizabeth Cromwell; 6. 'No fear lest dinner coole': Milton's housewives and the politics of Eden; Afterword; Works cited

Extended title: Politicizing domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve / Laura Lunger Knoppers

Great Britain Royal households Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669 Kings and rulers in art Kings and rulers in literature Manners and customs in art Manners and customs in literature LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

author: Knoppers, Laura Lunger
subject: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
subject: Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669