England’s Culture Wars: Politics, Partisanship and Political Lying

Week 3

Tutor: Mark Knights

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Sharon Achinstein, ‘The Uses of Deception: from Cromwell to Milton’ in Zeller and Schiffhorst, The Witness of Time (1993).

Bernard Capp, England’s Culture Wars: Puritan Reformation and its Enemies in the Interregnum, 1649-1660 (2012).

David Colclough, Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England (2005).

Conal Condren, Satire, Lies and Politics: The Case of Dr Arbuthnot (1997).

Dagmar Freist, Governed by Opinion: Politics, Religion and the Dynamics of Communication in Stuart London 1637-45 (1997).

Robert G. Ingram, Reformation without end: religion, politics and the past in post-revolutionary England, Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain (Manchester University Press, 2018).

Kate Loveman, Reading Fictions, 1660-1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture (Ashgate Publishing, 2008).

Mark Knights, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture (2007).

Jordan E. Taylor, Misinformation nation: Foreign news and the politics of truth in revolutionary America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).

Rachel Weil, A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England (2014).