Culture, politics, and society in Britain, 1660-1800
This collection of essays is based on papers given at a colloquium on "Culture and Politics: Ideology and Practice in Britain" held at Newcastle Polytechnic in September 1989. They are all concerned with the interlocking of the worlds of culture, politics and society.
Print Book, English, cop. 1991
Manchester University Press, Manchester, cop. 1991
VIII, 216 p. ; 23 cm
9780719034350, 0719034353
912395803
The King's two bodies - representations of Charles II, Paul Hammond; the press and the politics of culture in Bristol, 1660-1775, Jonathan Barry; Anglicanism and the arts - religion, culture and politics in the 18th century, Jeremy Gregory; the ideological significance of Scottish Jacobite latinity, Colin Kidd; patronage and power - the role of the portrait in 18th-century Britain, Shearer West; civilization and disease - medical ideology in the Enlightenment, Roy Porter; ideology, history, xenophobia and the world of print in 18th-century England, Jeremy Black.
"Based on papers given at a colloquium on Culture and politics : ideology and practice in Britain held at Newcastle Polytechnic in September 1989"--Introduction