"Cultures of Whiggism": New Essays on English Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth CenturyDavid Womersley, Paddy Bullard, Abigail Williams University of Delaware Press, 2005 - 370 pages In the preface to his edition of Shakespeare, Alexander Pope noted that his age was one of Parties, both in Wit and State. Much scholarship has been devoted to the complexities of the political parties of the eighteenth century, but there has been a surprising reluctance to explore what Pope implied were the corollaries of those parties, namely, parties in literature. The essays collected here explore the literary culture that arose from and supported what Pitt the Elder referred to as the great spirit of Whiggism that animated English politics during the eighteenth century. From the prehistory of Whiggism in the court of Charles II to the fractures opened up within it by the French Revolution in the 1790s, the interactions between Whiggish politics and literature are sampled and described in groundbreaking essays that range widely across the fields of eighteenth-century political prose, poetry, and the novel. |
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Early Whiggism | 29 |
Andrew Marvell and the Prehistory of Whiggism | 31 |
Whigs Political Economy and the Revolution of 168889 | 62 |
Commonwealth Politics in the Early Years of George I | 86 |
Joseph Addisons Whiggism | 108 |
Remarks on Catos Letters | 127 |
Whig Poetics | 147 |
Akensides Clamors for Liberty | 216 |
The Whig Novel | 235 |
Confessional Politics in Defoes Journal of the Plague Year | 237 |
Mary Davys and the Politics of Epistolary Form | 257 |
Tom Jones and the Crisis of Whiggism in MidHanoverian England | 268 |
Later Whiggism | 297 |
Tillotson Burnet and Lord William Russell in Whig Historiography 16751775 | 299 |
The Strange Case of Charles Pigott | 330 |
Patronage and Whig Literary Culture in the Early Eighteenth Century | 149 |
Gender Dissent and Whig Poetics | 173 |
Pope Peri Bathous and the Whig Sublime | 200 |
Contributors | 351 |
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