Patriot Opposition to Walpole Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742

Name: Patriot Opposition to Walpole Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742
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ISBN: 9780198129820

ISBN-10: 0198129823

ISBN-13: 9780198129820

Edition: 1994

Authors: Christine Gerrard

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What did it mean to be a "Patriot" during the Walpole administration? This is the first full-length study of the so-called Patriot opposition to Walpole which reached its height during the clamor for war against Spain at the turn of the 1730s. Christine Gerrard examines the interrelationship between patriotism, politics, and poetry in the period 1724-1742, looking at the poetry and drama of such authors as James Thomson, Alexander Pope, and the young Samuel Johnson, who were all drawn to the heady idealism of the young Boy Patriots. Other authors discussed include Bolingbroke, Lyttleton, West, Mallet, and Hill, and Gerrard looks, too, at the literature, prints, architecture, and statuary of…

Book details

List price: $230.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/2/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.49" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



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Abbreviations



Politicians, Poets, and the Prince



Patriots and Patriotism



Whigs in Opposition



Cultural Patriotism: Frederick and the Arts



Pope, Politics, and Genre



Mythologizing History



Patriot Gothic



Political Elizabethanism and the Spenser Revival



Mythologizing the Monarch: Ideas of a Patriot King



Jacobites and Patriots: Johnson and Savage


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