Nobody's perfect : a new Whig interpretation of history / Annabel Patterson.

Author/creator Patterson, Annabel M.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002.
Descriptionix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects
Whig Party (Great Britain)
Historiography--Great Britain. --History. --17th century.
Historiography--Great Britain. --History. --18th century.
Political science--Great Britain. --History.
Great Britain--Historiography.
Great Britain--Intellectual life. --17th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life. --18th century.

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 -- Meaning of names : Thompson's Marvell and the Whigs -- Two snuffboxes : recovering the Whig in Reynolds -- Thomas Erskine : the great defender -- Two steps forward, one step backwards : William Wordsworth's revisionism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-275) and index.
LCCN 2002006398
ISBN0300092881 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks DA1 .P38 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold