Author: John Wilson Croker
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Pages : 571
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Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution, by the Late Right Hon. John Wilson Croker. Reprinted from the "Quarterly Review", with Additions and Corrections
Author: John Wilson Croker
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Languages : en
Pages : 571
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Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution. By the Late Right Hon. John-Wilson Croker. Reprinted from "the Quarterly Review", with Additions and Corrections
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Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution ... Reprinted from 'The Quarterly Review,' with additions and corrections
Author: John Wilson Croker
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Pages : 590
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Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution. Reprinted from "The Quarterly Review," with Additions and Corrections
Author: John Wilson Croker (Rt. Hon.)
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Essays on the early period of the French revolution
Author: John Wilson Croker
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Pages : 610
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Pages : 610
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The Quarterly Review
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Quarterly Review
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Pages : 644
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The Living Age
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Pages : 842
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The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker
Author: William Thomas
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191543314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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This is the story of one of the great literary rows of the nineteenth century, between one of its greatest historians and one of its sharpest critics. The quarrel began in the House of Commons during the debates of 1831-2 on parliamentary reform and was continued in the quarterly reviews. Even in a political setting, it had a historical dimension. Croker taunted Macaulay for being ignorant of the French Revolution. Macaulay replied by pouring scorn on Croker's accuracy as editor of Boswell's Johnson. The bitterness of the clash made subsequent compromise impossible. Sixteen years later, Croker wrote a long damning review of the first two volumes of Macaulay's History of England. Posterity admires success, and as Macaulay's writings have eclipsed Croker's it has usually been assumed that Croker was moved by mere political spite. In this highly readable study, William Thomas shows that this verdict is unfair, that Croker's political opinions were both less rancorous and more interesting, and that Macaulay's own scholarship was far from faultless. He also considers each man's historical writing alongside his politics and argues that, while Croker's critical method was sharpened by his politics, Macaulay's political opinions were much more independent of party, and that he is not the typical Whig historian of legend. William Thomas illustrates how the two men actually had many ideas in common, and the commentators who have seen only political dislike have missed the real purpose of the History of England and what made it the most successful historical work in English literature.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191543314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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This is the story of one of the great literary rows of the nineteenth century, between one of its greatest historians and one of its sharpest critics. The quarrel began in the House of Commons during the debates of 1831-2 on parliamentary reform and was continued in the quarterly reviews. Even in a political setting, it had a historical dimension. Croker taunted Macaulay for being ignorant of the French Revolution. Macaulay replied by pouring scorn on Croker's accuracy as editor of Boswell's Johnson. The bitterness of the clash made subsequent compromise impossible. Sixteen years later, Croker wrote a long damning review of the first two volumes of Macaulay's History of England. Posterity admires success, and as Macaulay's writings have eclipsed Croker's it has usually been assumed that Croker was moved by mere political spite. In this highly readable study, William Thomas shows that this verdict is unfair, that Croker's political opinions were both less rancorous and more interesting, and that Macaulay's own scholarship was far from faultless. He also considers each man's historical writing alongside his politics and argues that, while Croker's critical method was sharpened by his politics, Macaulay's political opinions were much more independent of party, and that he is not the typical Whig historian of legend. William Thomas illustrates how the two men actually had many ideas in common, and the commentators who have seen only political dislike have missed the real purpose of the History of England and what made it the most successful historical work in English literature.
Littell's Living Age
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : American periodicals
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Pages : 842
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