dc.contributor.author | Post, Andy | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-01T13:19:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-05-01T13:19:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-05-01 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/50412 | |
dc.description | A close reading of an all-but-forgotten Arthurian play as an allegory against the Divine Right of Kings. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In 'Political Atheism vs. The Divine Right of Kings,' I build on Thompson and Scrivener’s work analysing John Thelwall’s play 'The Fairy of the Lake' as a political allegory, arguing all religious symbolism in 'FL' to advance the traditionally Revolutionary thesis that “the King is not a God.”
My first chapter contextualises Thelwall’s revival of 17th century radicalism during the French Revolution and its failure. My second chapter examines how Thelwall’s use of fire as a symbol discrediting the Saxons’ pagan notion of divine monarchy, also emphasises the idolatrous apotheosis of King Arthur. My third chapter deconstructs the Fairy of the Lake’s water and characterisation, and concludes her sole purpose to be to justify a Revolution beyond moral reproach. My fourth chapter traces how beer satirises Communion wine, among both pagans and Christians, in order to undermine any religion that could reinforce either divinity or the Divine Right of Kings. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | John Thelwall (1764-1834) | en_US |
dc.subject | Romanticism | en_US |
dc.subject | Romantic literature | en_US |
dc.subject | Romantic poetry | en_US |
dc.subject | Romantic nationalism | en_US |
dc.subject | Romantic medievalism | en_US |
dc.subject | Romantic antequarianism | en_US |
dc.subject | Saxon antequarianism | en_US |
dc.subject | Norse/Viking antequarianism | en_US |
dc.subject | Celtic antequarianism | en_US |
dc.subject | Whig history | en_US |
dc.subject | Jacobinism | en_US |
dc.subject | political allegory | en_US |
dc.subject | closet drama | en_US |
dc.subject | Early Modern | en_US |
dc.subject | atheism irreligion materialism stereotype | en_US |
dc.subject | Christianity | en_US |
dc.subject | Church of England | en_US |
dc.subject | Anglicanism | en_US |
dc.subject | Loyalism | en_US |
dc.subject | Germanic paganism | en_US |
dc.subject | Anglo-Saxon | en_US |
dc.subject | England | en_US |
dc.subject | Britain | en_US |
dc.subject | Wales | en_US |
dc.subject | French Revolution | en_US |
dc.subject | Glorious Revolution | en_US |
dc.subject | English Civil War | en_US |
dc.subject | King James I &VI | en_US |
dc.subject | John Milton | en_US |
dc.subject | Algernon Sidney | en_US |
dc.subject | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | en_US |
dc.subject | William Wordsworth | en_US |
dc.subject | Robert Southey | en_US |
dc.subject | Edmund Burke | en_US |
dc.subject | Simon Cottle | en_US |
dc.subject | Torquato Tasso | en_US |
dc.subject | Edda | en_US |
dc.subject | Northern Antiquities | en_US |
dc.subject | King Arthur | en_US |
dc.subject | Arthurian | en_US |
dc.subject | Sir Walter Scott | en_US |
dc.subject | Classical republicanism | en_US |
dc.subject | republicanism | en_US |
dc.subject | radicalism | en_US |
dc.subject | anti-monarchism | en_US |
dc.subject | fire | en_US |
dc.subject | water | en_US |
dc.subject | beer | en_US |
dc.subject | cwrw | en_US |
dc.subject | wassail | en_US |
dc.subject | Eucharist | en_US |
dc.subject | Communion | en_US |
dc.subject | Gothic | en_US |
dc.subject | Divine Right of Kings | en_US |
dc.subject | Political atheism | en_US |
dc.subject | Judith Thompson | en_US |
dc.subject | Michael Scrivener | en_US |
dc.title | Political Atheism vs. The Divine Right of Kings: Understanding 'The Fairy of the Lake' (1801) | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2014-04-30 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of English | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Carrie Dawson | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | David McNeil | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Ronald Tetreault | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Judith Thompson | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |