Nobody's perfect : a new Whig interpretation of history / Annabel Patterson.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.
Physical Description:
viii, 288 p. : ill. ; cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
John Almon : more than a bookseller -- Reading the Letter : a (short) chapter of its own -- Inventing postcolonialism : Burke's and Barry's Paradise lost and regained -- The meaning of names : Thompson's Marvell and the Whigs -- The two snuffboxes : recovering the Whig in Reynolds -- Thomas Erskine : the great defender -- Two steps forward, one step backwards : William Wordsworth's revisionism.
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- Historiography. | Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. | Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. | Political science -- Great Britain -- History. | Whig Party (Great Britain)