'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