Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910

Michael J. Connolly

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780228014010
• eBook ISBN: 9780228014966
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History of Religion
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• 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