The ingenious Mr. Henry Care, restoration publicist / Lois G. Schwoerer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwoerer, Lois G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Care, Henry, 1646-1688.

Care, Henry.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Rhetoric.

Press agents.

History.

Historiography.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Great Britain--History--Restoration, 1660-1688--Historiography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Restoration, 1660-1688--Biography.

Press agents--Great Britain--Biography.

Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Journalists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Henry Care (1646-88) was a middle-class publicist in Restoration 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 to scholars 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.

Contents:

Law and print culture

Henry Care's early life and writing

The weekly pacquet of advice from Rome

The acquittal of Sir George Wakeman

Care's trial and Sir William Scroggs's impeachment

Restyling political rhetoric in the exclusion crisis

Victim or turncoat?

Dissent's defender and religious liberty

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-332) and index.

ISBN:

0801867274

OCLC:

45500137