Dr Jerome De Groot

Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Jerome.Degroot@manchester.ac.uk
Ext: 53170
Room: Samuel Alexander Building S1.16

Intellectual Royalism

12 April 2008

Chetham’s Library, Manchester

10-11

Jerome de Groot (Manchester)

Introductory remarks/ ‘Royalist Translation’

Philip Major (Birkbeck)

‘Royalism and Translation’

11.15-12.15

Sean Herrera-Thomas (Redwoods, CA)

‘By thee fish die; by thee dead friends revive’: Intellectual Marriage in Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler

Jo Smith (Sheffield)

‘The Hermeneutics of Cosmetics: Censorship and the Body Politic in A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty (1656)’

1.15-2

Matthew Yeo (Manchester/ Chetham’s), workshop on Royalism at Chetham’s

2-3.30

Session 3

Iain McClure (Birkbeck)

‘John Greaves, Pyramidographia and the royalism of Ancient Egypt’

Jason McElligott (Oxford)

‘“A Declaration and Protestation of the Governor and Inhabitants of Virginia”: Polemic, Censorship and Trans-Atlantic Royalism’

Marcus Nevitt (Sheffield)

‘Rationalist Poetics and Anti-Intellectualism: Royalist Responses to Sir William Davenant's Gondibert’


My Research
My main area of interest lies in the period 1630-1660, and in particular gender, sexual and political identity. My monograph, Royalist Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), considered the legal, social and cultural pressures attendant upon supporters of the king during the 1640s.  Royalist Identities was nominated for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize. Kevin Sharpe, reviewing it in the Times Literary Supplement, declared that it considered 'an important and neglected subject' and 'opens a fresh critical approach to the pamphlet wars that historians yet need to pursue'. Read Jason McElligott’s review of it for H-Net here.

 I have published widely on civil war Royalism, including articles on mapping and space ('Chorographia, Newcastle, and Royalist identity in the late 1640s' in The Seventeenth Century, 18/1 (Spring) 2003, pp. 61-75) and on the court of this period, an extremely neglected subject ('Space, Patronage, Procedure: the court at Oxford 1642-46' in English Historical Review, vol. cxvii, 474 (November) 2002, pp. 1204-1227). I have also published chapters on gender politics and representation during this period ('Mothers, Lovers and Others: Royalist Women', in Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-1660, ed. James Daybell (Ashgate, 2004), pp. 188-204).

I have work forthcoming on Royalist prison writing (‘“Ile make my very Gaole your Liberty”: Royalist stoicism and the writing of prison’ in Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum ed. Jason McElligott and David L. Smith (Manchester University Press, 2008), Early modern pedagogy and gender, and the Intellectual atmosphere of the 1640s and 1650s. A major article is coming out next year in Studies in English Literature on John Denham and Lucy Hutchinson’s commonplace book.

I have also worked on manuscript coteries and the inns of court during the 1630s ('Coteries, complications and the question of female agency' in The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline Era ed. by Julie Sanders and Ian Atherton (Manchester University Press, 2006), pp. 189-209). I contributed two entries to the new Dictionary of National Biography.

 
Contemporary popular history

My secondary research interest is in contemporary popular history. Consuming History will be published by Routledge in October 2008, and concerns the ways in which contemporary popular culture engages with history – there are chapters on film, television (documentary and drama), museums, re-enactment and novel writing. The Historical Novel (Routledge New Critical Idiom series) is due to be published in 2009. I published an article on populist historiographies, 'Empathy and Enfranchisement: Popular Histories’ in Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 10:3 (2006), and I have ‘Historiography and virtuality’ forthcoming in Cultural History and Representations ed. Emma Waterton and Steve Watson (Routledge, 2008).

I am a peer-reviewer for the AHRC, a reader for Manchester University Press and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Please get in touch if you are interested in postgraduate study in any of the areas mentioned above.

 
Conferences
I organise the Manchester Early Modern Texts Workshop. Our next seminar is Intellectual Royalism on the 12 April 2008 at Chetham’s Library,  Manchester. Meetings to date include Conversion Narratives, at John Rylands Library, June 2007; Writing the Revolutionary Self, at Chetham’s Library,  Manchester, January 2007; Early Modern Autobiography, at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, April 2005. 

Court Culture 1642-1660, Hampton Court Palace, June 2006. The proceedings from this meeting are collected in 'Court culture 1642-1660', an 
Early Modern  Literary Studies special edition (co-edited with Peter Sillitoe, 2007). Other conference organisation includes Early Modern Terrorism: Atrocity and Political  Violence (Imperial War Museum North, Nov 2005); Renaissance Imprisonment (Tower of London, September 2004); Renaissance Leisure (Marsh’s Library,  Dublin, April 2003); Renaissance Technologies (University of Huddersfield, March 2002).