Author: Charles DavenantPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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The Old Modern Whig Truly Represented
Author: Charles DavenantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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The Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742
Author: Thomas McGearyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1837651698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day. This last of a trilogy of books on opera and politics in Britain examines the cultural politics of opera during the ministerial reign of Sir Robert Walpole from 1720 to 1742. The book explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera - with its associations with the court, ministry and Britain's social-political elite - was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day: how Italian opera was used for partisan political advantage; how political work could be accomplished by means of opera. It shows that attacks on opera had ulterior targets. The book surveys a range of often overlooked verse and prints to show how critique or satire of opera were a means for oppositional writers to delegitimize the Walpole ministry. Polemicists framed opera as a consequence of the corruption, luxury and False Taste generated by Walpole's ministry. It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.
Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain
Author: Mark KnightsPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019151456X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In this original and illuminating new study, Mark Knights reveals how the political culture of the eighteenth century grew out of earlier trends and innovations. Arguing that the period from 1675 needs to be seen as the second stage of a seventeenth-century revolution that ran on until c.1720, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain charts the growth of a national political culture and traces the development of the public as an arbiter of politics. In doing so, it uncovers a crisis of public discourse and credibility, and finds a political enlightenment rooted in local and national partisan conflict. The later Stuart period was characterized by frequent elections, the lapse of pre-publication licensing, the emergence of party politics, the creation of a public debt, and ideological conflict over popular sovereignty. These factors combined to enhance the status of the 'public', not least in requiring it to make numerous acts of judgement. Contemporaries from across the political spectrum feared that the public might be misled by the misrepresentations pedalled by their rivals. Each side, and those ostensibly of no side, discerned a culture of passion, slander, libel, lies, hypocrisy, dissimulation, conspiracy, private languages, and fictions. 'Truth' appeared an ambiguous, political matter. Yet the reaction to partisanship was also creative, for it helped to construct an ideal form of political discourse. This was one based on reason rather than passion, on moderation rather than partisan zeal, on critical reading rather than credulity; and an increasing realization that these virtues arose from infrequent rather than frequent elections. Finding synergies between social, political, religious, scientific, literary, cultural, and intellectual history, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain reinvigorates the debate about the emergence of 'the public sphere' in the later Stuart period.
Memoirs of the life and times of Daniel De Foe, containing a review of his writings, and his opinions upon a variety of important matters
Author: Walter WilsonMemoirs of the Life and Time of Daniel De Foe
Author: Walter WilsonMemoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe:
Author: Walter WilsonCatalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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A Catalogue of Books Chiefly Relating to English and American History and Antiquities
Author: McGill University. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A catalogue of books, chiefly relating to English and American history and antiquities ... presented to the University of McGill college, Montreal, by Peter Redpath, esq
Author: Montreal McGill univ, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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