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The English Ideology
An examination of how the political literature of the 19th century sheds light on English parliamentary thought.
ISBN-13: 9780718891565 |
The English ideology is parliamentary. In this study, which first appeared in 1973, George Watson shows how literary evidence, much of it fictional, can illuminate the life of a great institution like the British parliament.
The book contains chapters on political oratory and the parliamentary novel – that uniquely Victorian form – which Disraeli created and in which Trollope excelled. It is the first comprehensive attempt to use literary evidence to expose the politics of a whole age.
It expounds nineteenth century controversies over democracy, class, race, morality and empire – a study of political language in the era when modern politics was born.
"A tour de force, vigorously argued, and provocative in the best spirit of the sources."
Stephen Koss, New York historian
"George Watson is well known for his distinctive and stimulating views, and The English Ideology sees him at his best."
Prof Peter Clarke, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
George Watson is a Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, author of The Literary Critics and general editor of the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
Other titles available by George Watson:
Lost Literature of Socialism (Hardback Edition)
Lost Literature of Socialism (Paperback Edition)
Never Ones For Theory? England and the War of Ideas (Hardback Edition)
Never Ones For Theory? England and the War of Ideas (Paperback Edition)
The Story of the Novel
Take Back the Past: Myths of the Twentieth Century
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