"Cultures of Whiggism" : new essays on English literature and culture in the long eighteenth century
"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."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
370 pages ; 25 cm
9780874138962, 0874138965
56065078
Andrew Marvell and the prehistory of Whiggism / Nicholas von Maltzahn
Whigs, political economy and the Revolution of 1688-89 / Steven C.A. Pincus
"Anglia Libera": Commonwealth politics in the early years of George I / Justin Champion
Joseph Addison's Whiggism / Lawrence E. Klein
Remarks on Cato's Letters / Ian Higgins
Patronage and Whig literary culture in the early eighteenth century / Abigail Williams
Elizabeth Singer Rowe: gender, dissent, and Whig poetics / Sarah Prescott
Pope, Peri Bathous, and the Whig sublime / Christine Gerrard
Akenside's clamors for liberty / Adam Rounce
Confessional politics in Defoe's Journal of the plague year / David Womersley
Mary Davys and the politics of epistolary form / Alice Wakely
Tom Jones and the crisis of Whiggism in mid-Hanoverian England / Paul Monod
The latitude of Whiggism: Tillotson, Burnet, and Lord William Russell in Whig historiography, 1675-1775 / Paddy Bullard
"A bold and free-spoken man": the strange case of Charles Pigott / Jon Mee