Jerome De Groot has lectured in English at the University of Huddersfield, University of Wales, Bangor and University College, Dublin. He has published chapters in books and articles in The Seventeenth Century and The English Historical Review, and held research fellowships at Oxford, Harvard, UCLA and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

'Jerome de Groot's subject, an important and neglected one, is the Royalists' search, after the outbreak of civil war, for discursive modes and strategies that might structure a new identity and garner support for their party...Royalist Identities opens a fresh critical approach to the pamphlet wars that historians yet need to pursue.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Royalist Identities is to be welcomed for its redress of a historiographical balance that has favoured the Roundheads and for its address to the tropes and textual strategies of the pamphlet exchange through years of shifting circumstances...[it] opens a fresh critical approach to the pamphlet wars that historians yet need to pursue.' - Kevin Sharpe, Times Higher Education Supplement

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Introduction 'But the Picture, but the signe of a King': The Legal Space of Self and Nation The Royalist Reader 'The late strangenesse betweeene us': Invasion, Excrement and Recognition Gorgeous Gorgons: Royalist Women Fragmentation of the Body and the End of Identity Notes Bibliography Index