Title Bolingbroke and his circle : the politics of nostalgia in the age of Walpole / Isaac Kramnick

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Frontmatter -- Preface -- Preface to Paperback Edition -- Contents -- Introduction: Bolingbroke, Political Thought, and the Augustan Age -- I. The "Anti-Minister": The Political Career and Writings of Lord Bolingbroke -- II. Walpole and the New Economic Order -- III. Bolingbroke and the New England -- IV. Bolingbroke on Natural Law, Society, and the Origins of Government -- V. Walpole on Politics and the English Constitution -- VI. Bolingbroke on Politics and the English Constitution -- VII. Defoe and the Literature of the New Age -- VIII. The Nostalgia of the Augustan Poets -- IX. The Ambivalence of the Augustan Commonwealthman -- Conclusion: Toward a Reassessment of Bolingbroke -- Notes -- Index Summary "Behind this study lie two questions. Why is Bolingbroke, known primarily as a rationalist philosopher of the Enlightenment, so worshipped by English conservatives who are themselves, since Burke, so set against what the Enlightenment represents in political, social, and religious thought? The second question relates to Bolingbroke's public life. How does one explain the intense animosity between Bolingbroke and Walpole which provides the energy for English political life between 1725 and 1740? Is it mere vindictiveness, ambition, jealousy, or the inevitable reflex of the 'outsider' against the 'insider'? Or is it, as the late Victorian writers thought, their falling out at Eton which forever fated them to be protagonists?"-from the Preface Notes Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1968 Cover title: Bolingbroke & his circle Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-313) and index Subject Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751. Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751 -- Friends and associates SUBJECT Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751 -- Friends and associates Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751 Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751 fast Subject Nostalgia -- Political aspects -- Great Britain HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Friendship Intellectual life Nostalgia -- Political aspects Politics and government SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1714-1760. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056903 Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056855 Subject Great Britain Form Electronic book LC no. 92004257 ISBN 9781501731792 1501731793

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