Nobody's perfect : a new Whig interpretation of history / Annabel Patterson

Author:: Patterson, Annabel M.
Published:: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
Copyright Date:: ©2002
Physical Description:: ix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Contents:

John Almon : more than a bookseller -- Reading the Letter : a (short) chapter of its own -- Inventing postcolonialism : Burke's and Barry's Paradise lost and regained -- Meaning of names : Thompson's Marvell and the Whigs -- Two snuffboxes : recovering the Whig in Reynolds -- Thomas Erskine : the great defender -- Two steps forward, one step backwards : William Wordsworth's revisionism.

Subject(s):

Whig Party (Great Britain)
Historiography—Great Britain—History—17th century
Historiography—Great Britain—History—18th century
Political science—Great Britain—History
Great Britain—Historiography
Great Britain—Intellectual life—17th century
Great Britain—Intellectual life—18th century

ISBN:

0300092881 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-275) and index.

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