Author: John WadePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A Political Dictionary; Or, Pocket Companion
Author: John WadePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A Political Dictionary; Or, Pocket Companion Chiefly Designed for the Use of Members of Parliament, Whigs, Tories, Loyalists, Magistrates, Clergymen, Half-pay Officers, Worshipful Alderman and Reviewers; Being an Illustration and Commentary on All Words, Phrases and Proper Names in the Vocabulary of Corruption...with Biographical Illustrations from the Lives of the Most Celebrated Corruptionists in Church and State
Author: John WadePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A Political Dictionary, Or, Pocket Companion Chiefly Designed for the Use of Members of Parliament, Whigs, Tories, Loyalists, Magistrates, Clergymen, Half-pay Officers, Worshipful Aldermen and Reviewers
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Safire's Political Dictionary
Author: William SafirePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199711119
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 887
Book Description
When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit. Safire's Political Dictionary is a stem-to-stern updating and expansion of the Language of Politics, which was first published in 1968 and last revised in 1993, long before such terms as Hanging Chads, 9/11 and the War on Terror became part of our everyday vocabulary. Nearly every entry in that renowned work has been revised and updated and scores of completely new entries have been added to produce an indispensable guide to the political language being used and abused in America today. Safire's definitions--discursive, historically aware, and often anecdotal--bring a savvy perspective to our colorful political lingo. Indeed, a Safire definition often reads like a mini-essay in political history, and readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America. From Axis of Evil, Blame Game, Bridge to Nowhere, Triangulation, and Compassionate Conservatism to Islamofascism, Netroots, Earmark, Wingnuts and Moonbats, Slam Dunk, Doughnut Hole, and many others, this language maven explains the origin of each term, how and by whom and for what purposes it has been used or twisted, as well as its perceived and real significance. For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire's Political Dictionary offers a work of scholarship, wit, insiderhood and resolute bipartisanship.
William Hazlitt
Author: Kevin GilmartinPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191019380
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Over the course of a literary career that extended from the lingering Malthusian controversies of the late eighteenth century to the brink of the Reform Act of 1832, William Hazlitt produced a remarkable body of committed radical journalism. Against the view that partisan passion undermined his aesthetic judgment and compromised his celebrated disinterestedness, William Hazlitt: Political Essayist restores politics to the center of his achievement as a critic and essayist. In doing so Kevin Gilmartin explores his constructive relationship with the early nineteenth-century popular reform movement, while acknowledging his desire to reflect critically on radical politics and express his own doubts about social progress. Early chapters attend closely to his critical method and matters of style and form, focusing on the political development of his contradictory prose manner. Paradox and inconsistency are central to his attack on 'Legitimacy', a term he drew form the lexicon of post-Napoleonic political journalism. In treating legitimate government as a revived form of divine right monarchy, Hazlitt often produced harrowing visions of the perfect refinement of oppressive power and the complete elimination of any principle of liberty or resistance. At the same time he found ways to preserve his commitment to oppositional political expression and the redemptive necessity of what he termed 'a word uttered against'. Later chapters bring together the spiritual heritage of rational Dissent and emerging democratic developments in London to understand Hazlitt's distinctive mobilization of radical memory as a way of contending with present injustice and envisioning a political future.
Print Politics
Author: Kevin GilmartinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521496551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Literary study of the popular radical press in England, 1800-1830.
Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others.
Correspondence; consisting chiefly of Letters and Addresses on the subject of Radical Reform
Author: Henry HUNT (M.P., for Preston.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, Etc., Chiefly Political and Controversial
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Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH BOOKS, IN ALL CLASSES OF LITERATURE.
Author: JOHN BOHN, 17, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDENPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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