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Laura Lunger Knoppers Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton’s Eve

This is an engaging study of the politicization of the image of the royal family from the 1630s through the 1660s. Despite its expansive title, however, the book is rather more narrowly focused on the image of Charles I’s French Catholic queen, Henrietta Maria. As the focal point of political controversy, whose image was oppositionally constructed and reconstructed by royalist apologists and antiroyalist critics, Henrietta Maria provides the deep-running thread through the volume’s six chapters. While the first four chapters of Politicizing Domesticity most visibly take this queen as their subject, the last two, focusing on Elizabeth Cromwell and Milton’s Eve, respectively, offer texts with images counter to those of Henrietta Maria. For the book’s main concern is the intersection of the domestic with high politics as exemplified by the figure of the queen or the female head of household. This is decidedly a study of the various and conflicting representations of Henrietta Maria and the royal household rather than the queen in her own right. It does not consider, for instance, her own self-representation in courtly masques. This approach to Henrietta Maria has many virtues: it allows for a kaleidoscopic view of the queen by exploring an eclectic range of materials, from the more dynastic royal portraits to political tracts and cookery books, to conclude with a major English epic. In this way, Laura Knoppers’s monograph is reminiscent of her previous one, an excellent study of the myriad representations of Oliver Cromwell. The first four chapters, focusing most clearly on Henrietta Maria, move alternately between royalist representations sympathetic to the queen and antiroyalist controversial tracts hostile to her. Chapter 1 considers how domestic family relationships were mapped onto dynastic and monarchical ones through royal portraiture. The striking contrast between the lack of