[Rarebooks] FS: Surprisingly Expensive Book on Walpole & Patriot Opposition

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “The Patriot Opposition to Walpole. Politics, Poetry and National
Myth, 1725-1742”

By Christine Gerrard.
Published in Oxford by the Clarendon Press in 1994.

DISCUSSION: "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. Drawing on the
literature, prints, architecture and statuary of the 1730s Christine
Garrard also explores in depth two of the decades most powerful patriotic
myths- Saxon or 'Gothic' liberty, and Elizabethan greatness."

"A significant contribution to the growing corpus of scholarship on the
genesis of British nationalism in the 18th century" (Times Higher
Education Supplement).

"This spirited study is a much needed complement to Mack, Goldgar, and
others on anti-Walpolian satire and to recent work on Jacobite
rhetoric....Like the best new historical literary scholarship, the book
not only recontextualizes well-known writers..,but considers afresh many
neglected figures. Gerrard has done her homework in archival reading very
convincingly" (Choice).

"Thanks to Christine Gerrard, we now have an angle of vision into the
imaginative world of the Whigs who opposed Walpole" (Albion).

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 273 pages, black & white illustrations,
dust jacket.

CONDITION NOTES: Minor wear, but otherwise clean and nice, with a tight
binding.

PRICE:  $100 -

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