| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: Authentic Royal Voices: 1. Materiality and power in Tudor royal correspondence -- 2. Royal epistolary language: trends and trajectories -- 3. Pragmatic perspectives on royal letters -- 4. Tudor royal proclamations: materiality, orality and performance -- Part II: Appropriated Royal Voices: 5. Non-royal views of royal voices: afterlives and metalanguage -- 6. Impostor, Protector and Queen: the textual power of royal pretenders -- 7. Writing royal voices: royal discourse reports in sixteenth-century correspondence -- 8. Royal voices, narrative and ideology in sixteenth-century chronicles -- Conclusion -- Works Cited |
| Summary |
"This book explores the notion that the construction and representation of Tudor royal power was, in part, a textual process: a combination of verbal and visual strategies through which the magnificence of monarchy could be indexed and legitimated. Using concepts from sociolinguistics and historical pragmatics, the book applies the notion of enregisterment to investigate the characteristics of a 'royal voice' in authentic royal texts (letters and proclamation), and to explore the extent to which these visual and linguistic features were salient to, and appropriated by, Tudor subjects in their own letters and non-literary publications, such as historical chronicles. The study applies corpus-based methods to manuscript and printed materials, combining quantitative analysis with qualitative close reading, to describe and interpret how the texts construct monarchic power. The analysis identifies developments across the Tudor period, which are considered both in light of the changing socio-political context and the shifts in orality and documentary culture attested in the sixteenth century"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 08, 2020) |
| Subject |
English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History
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Speech and social status -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Speech and social status -- England -- History -- 17th century
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English language -- Written English -- Great Britain
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English language -- Early modern
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English language -- Written English
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Speech and social status
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056776
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| Subject |
England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019040750 |
| ISBN |
9781108851121 |
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1108851126 |
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9781316443095 |
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1316443094 |
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