This cultural history challenges the standard depiction of the 1660s as the beginning of a new age of stability, demonstrating that the decade following the Restoration was just as complex and exciting as the revolutionary years that preceded it.
About the Author
N. H. Keeble is Professor of English Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters (1982) and The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England (1987). He has compiled a two-volume Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter (1991, with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) and has edited texts by Baxter, John Bunyan and Lucy Hutchinson, as well as collections of essays on Bunyan and an anthology illustrating The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman (1994).
Features
Challenges the standard depiction of the 1660s as the beginning of a new age of stability.
Presents the Restoration as a process rather than an event.
Demonstrates that the 1660s were multi-faceted, dynamic and exciting.
Offers a topic-based cultural history, rather than a straightforward chronological account.
Uses contemporary accounts, allowing readers to hear the voices of the age speak in their own words.
