Henry Care (1646-88) was a Restoration publicist from middle-class London who made his living by his skillful pen during the Exclusion Crisis and the reign of King James II. In both eras he developed a large following in the popular press. Although he is little known today, both friends and enemies in his time regarded him as someone to be reckoned with. The Stuart kings also appreciated the influence and potential threat of Care and of the press in general, and they sought to restrain him and to tighten controls on the ...
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Henry Care (1646-88) was a Restoration publicist from middle-class London who made his living by his skillful pen during the Exclusion Crisis and the reign of King James II. In both eras he developed a large following in the popular press. Although he is little known today, both friends and enemies in his time regarded him as someone to be reckoned with. The Stuart kings also appreciated the influence and potential threat of Care and of the press in general, and they sought to restrain him and to tighten controls on the press, even as they themselves used propagandists to combat both. By exploring Care's life and work from his anonymous origins to his eventual celebrity as a polemicist first for the Whigs and later for James II, and by examining the influence of his ideas in the American colonies, Schwoerer offers new insights into how the nonelite participated in and affected politics. Care's career illuminates many issues currently of interest in the study of Restoration England, including print culture, the uses of law, women's history, attitudes toward religious liberty and toleration, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Revolution of 1688--89. Using Care's life as a window into the period, Schwoerer contributes significantly to the ongoing reevaluation and rethinking of the Restoration.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xxvii, [3], 349, [5] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear. Lois Green Schwoerer is an American historian of seventeenth century England and Elmer Louis Kayser Professor Emeritus of History. Lois Green Schwoerer was a full-time member of the History Department for 32 years. During this time, she taught courses on the Renaissance, Tudor-Stuart England, and European Women. With others she initiated steps that led to the creation of the Women's Studies major. Schwoerer served the profession as President of the North American Conference on British Studies and on committees of the American Historical Association. She was a member of the founding committee and then of the Steering Committee of the Center for the History of British Political Thought at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She was on the Yale University Board of Parliamentary History and a member of the American Friends of the Institute of Historical Research. Henry Care (1646-88) is hardly a major name. Few beyond the ranks of the specialists on the print culture of the reign of Charles II would have heard of him. Between 1670 and 1678 Care earned a living as a professional writer, producing a series of works on subjects ranging. One of those books, a eulogy to the French published in 1673, implicitly supported Charles II's pro-French foreign policy. The Popish Plot was certainly the making of him. He emerged in 1687 as the leading Protestant writer publishing in support of James II's policy of religious toleration. Schwoerer's book is first and foremost a work of biographical recovery. It ranks as a major achievement. One cannot imagine that Schwoerer has missed much in the archives in her search for information about her hero. The result is that his works can be placed in sharply contextualized focus. There can now be no doubt that Care was indeed one of the leading polemical writers working in London in the ten years preceding the Revolution of 1688.
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