| The English Ideology: Studies on the Language of Victorian Politics Revised Edition Contributor(s): Watson, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 0718891562 ISBN-13: 9780718891565 Publisher: Lutterworth Press OUR PRICE: $34.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 820 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.81 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 onpolitical 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 nineteenthcentury controversies over democracy, class, race, morality and empire a study of political language in the era when modern politics was born. |
Contributor Bio(s): Watson, George: - George Watson is Fellow in English at St. John's College, Cambridge. He has published a number of books on literature and political thought, including 'The Literary Critics', its sequel, 'Never Ones for Theory?', 'The English Ideology', 'Lost Literature of Socialism' and 'Take Back the Past', also published by The Lutterworth Press. He has been Sandars Reader in Bibliography, and is editor of the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. |