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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
A Brief Historical Chronology
A Note on the Text
Eikon Basilike
Selections from Eikonoklastes
Appendix A: Other Contemporary Responses to Eikon Basilike
Appendix B: The Trial and Execution of King Charles I
Appendix C: Restoration Revelations and Restraints
Works Cited and Select Bibliography
Jim Daems currently teaches in the English
Department at the University College of the Fraser Valley. He is
the author of Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture
(Continuum, 2005).
Holly Faith Nelson, Assistant Professor of English
at Trinity Western University, has co-edited The Broadview
Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose (2000) and Of
Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton
(University of Delaware Press, 2004).
“This is a very intelligent and authoritative edition of Eikon
Basilike, a text crucial for the study of seventeenth-century
English literature and politics. The extraordinary textual duel
between England’s fallen king, Charles I, and her epic poet, John
Milton, has come to be seen as one of the great set-pieces of early
modern polemical literature, and this edition now allows us to
teach this compelling intertextual struggle in one volume. Not only
do the editors offer a full and thoughtfully annotated text of the
king’s book, but they also provide the most relevant sections of
Milton’s brilliant response, Eikonoklastes—not to mention a rich
selection of other contemporary contributions to the debate.” -
Paul Stevens, University of Toronto
"Eikon Basilike is one of the most popular and important texts of
the seventeenth century, but has long been out of print. In
printing with Eikon Basilike selections from John Milton's
response, Eikonoklastes, the editors reunite texts often studied by
different disciplines. Notices of, and brief selections from, other
attacks on and defences of 'The King's Book' also return these
works to the polemical print exchanges to which they belong and
which they in turn shaped. As well as a useful working text for
scholars in two disciplines, this edition will enable and stimulate
discussions of the rhetorical contest for authority that was
inseparable from political struggles in the England of the 1640s
and 1650s." - Kevin Sharpe, Queen Mary, University of London
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