Cultures of Whiggism - New Essays on English Literature Culture in Long Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Klappentext The essays collected in this volume explore the Whiggish literary culture that arose in England in the late seventeenth century and continued throughout the following century. From the pre-history of Whiggism in the court of Charles II to the fractures opened up within it by the pressures created by the French Revolution in the 1790s, the interactions between Whiggish politics and literature are sampled and described.

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• Authors: David Womersley
• Assisted by: David Womersley (Editor), Womersley David (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611492682
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-268-2
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literary reference works