The heroic mode was a literary mood that emerged during the reign of England's Stuart monarchs. As McGirr (drama and English, Royal Holloway, U. of London, UK) describes it, it was a style of
performance that was "overwhelming, monologic, and baroque," but it was also an ideology that, with its powerful monarchs, deus ex machina, and providential history endorsed divine right theory
and Stuart absolutism. She explores how the heroic and the anti-heroic served as tools of partisan propaganda at moments of political crisis: the Restoration, the Exclusion Crisis, the Glorious
Revolution, the Hanoverian Succession, and the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
