Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 18801910 (Volume 6) (McGill-Queen's Transatlantic Studies)

An exploration of Anglo-American Jacobitism in the Victorian era. In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain, and later the United States, as resistance to the liberal democracies of Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America. __Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910__ explores the rise and fall of Anglo-American Jacobitism and the movement’s ideas and concerns. "In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain and the United States, highlighting the virtues of the Stuart monarchs in contrast to liberal, democratic, and materialist Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America. Compared with similarly aligned protest movements of the era--socialism, anarchism, nihilism, populism, and progressivism--the rise of Jacobitism receives little attention. Born in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Jacobitism had been in steep decline since the mid-eighteenth century. But between 1880 and 1910, Jacobite organizations popped up across Britain, then spread to the United States, publishing royalist magazines, organizing public demonstrations, offering Anglo-Catholic masses to fallen Stuart kings, and praying at Stuart statues and tombs. Michael Connolly explains the rise and fall of Anglo-American Jacobitism, places it in context, and reveals its significance as a response to and a driver of the political forces of the period. Understanding the Jacobite movement clarifies Victorian Anglo-American anxiety over liberalism, democracy, industrialization, and emerging modernity. In an age when worries over liberalism are again ascendant, Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880-1910 traces the complex genealogy of this unease."-- Provided by publisher In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain and the United States, highlighting the virtues of the Stuart monarchs in contrast to liberal, democratic, and materialist Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America. Compared with similarly aligned protest movements of the era – socialism, anarchism, nihilism, populism, and progressivism – the rise of Jacobitism receives little attention. Born in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Jacobitism had been in steep decline since the mid-eighteenth century. But between 1880 and 1910, Jacobite organizations popped up across Britain, then spread to the United States, publishing royalist magazines, organizing public demonstrations, offering Anglo-Catholic masses to fallen Stuart kings, and praying at Stuart statues and tombs. Michael Connolly explains the rise and fall of Anglo-American Jacobitism, places it in context, and reveals its significance as a response to and a driver of the political forces of the period. Understanding the Jacobite movement clarifies Victorian Anglo-American anxiety over liberalism, democracy, industrialization, and emerging modernity. In an age when worries over liberalism are again ascendant, Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910 traces the complex genealogy of this unease. Cover JACOBITISM IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES, 1880–1910 Title Copyright Contents Preface: Why Care about the Victorian Jacobites? Introduction Jacobitism in the Age of Victoria 1 Legitimacy and Obedience: The Ideas behind Jacobite Resurgence 2 “Now the Moon Is Blighted”: The Victorian Jacobite World 3 “Authority Has a Divine Sanction”: The Early Years of the White Rose in Britain 4 “God Save Queen Mary”: The High Tide of Victorian Jacobitism 5 “Up with the Standard”: The White Rose Comes to America 6 “The Heresy of Popular Sovereignty”: Ralph Adams Cram and the Royal Standard 7 “The Persistence of Loyalty to Tradition”: The Decline and Fall of Victorian Jacobitism Conclusion “The Fault of the Years”: The Significance of the Victorian Jacobites Notes Index