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Queen Anne and the Arts

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The cultural highlights of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) have long been overlooked. However, recent scholarship, including the present volume, is demonstrating that Anne has been seriously underestimated, both as a person, and as a monarch, and that there was much cultural activity of note in what might be called an interim period, coming after the deaths of Dryden and Purcell but before the blossoming of Pope and Handel, after the glories of Baroque architecture but before the triumph of Burlingtonian neoclassicism. The authors of Queen Anne and the Arts make a case for Anne's reign as a time of experimentation and considerable accomplishment in new genres, some of which developed, some of which faded away. The volume includes essays on the music, drama, poetry, quasi-operas, political pamphlets, and architecture, as well as on newer genres, such as coin and medal collecting, hymns, and poetical miscellanies, all produced during Anne's reign.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: "Praise the Patroness of Arts" James A. Winn Chapter 2: "She Will Not Be That Tyrant They Desire": Daniel Defoe and Queen Anne Nicholas Seager Chapter 3: Queen Anne, Patron of Poets? Juan Christian Pellicer Chapter 4: The Moral in the Material: Numismatics and Identity in Evelyn, Addison, and Pope Barbara M. Benedict Chapter 5: Mild Mockery: Queen Anne's Era and the Cacophony of Calm Kevin L. Cope Chapter 6: Great Anna's Chaucer: Pope's January and May and the Logic of Settlement Philip Smallwood Chapter 7: The Diverting Muse: Miscellanies and Miscellany Culture in Queen Anne's Reign Abigail Williams Chapter 7: Nicholas Rowe's The Fair Penitent and the Performance of Personal Space in Eighteenth-Century London Julia H. Fawcett Chapter 8: The Theater in the Age of Queen Anne: The Case of George Farquhar Brian Corman Chapter 9: Isaac Watts's Occasional Conformities Jayne Lewis Chapter 10: Musical Politics in George Granville's The British Enchanters Amanda Eubanks Winkler Chapter 11: "Sing Great Anna's Matchless Name": Images of Queen Anne in the Court Ode Estelle Murphy Chapter 12: Nicholas Hawksmoor: The Other English Baroque Architect Cedric D. Reverand II Bibliography Notes on Contributors
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