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Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture

Autor Mark Knights
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 mar 2005
In this original and illuminating study, Mark Knights reveals how the political culture of the eighteenth century grew out of earlier trends and innovations. Arguing that the period 1675-1720 needs to be seen as the second stage of a seventeenth-century revolution that ran on until c.1720, the book traces the development of the public as an arbiter of politics, the growth of a national political culture, the shift towards a representative society, a crisis of public discourse and credibility, and a political enlightenment rooted in local and national partisan conflict. The 'public' acquired a new status in the later Stuart period as a result of frequent elections, the lapse of pre-publication licensing, the emergence of party politics, the creation of a public debt and ideological conflict over popular sovereignty. These factors enlarged the role of the public and required it to make frequent acts of judgement. Yet contemporaries from across the political spectrum feared that the public might be misled by the misrepresentations peddled by their rivals. Each side, and those ostensibly of no side, discerned a culture of passion, slander, libel, lies, hypocrisy, dissimulation, conspiracy, private languages and fictions. 'Truth' appeared an ambiguous, political matter. But the reaction to partisanship was also creative, for it helped to construct an ideal form of political discourse. This was one based on reason rather than passion, on politeness rather than incivility, on moderation rather than partisan zeal, on critical reading rather than credulity; and the realisation of those ideals rested on infrequent rather than frequent elections. Finding synergies between social, political, religious, scientific, literary, cultural and intellectual history, 'Representation and Misrepresentation' reinvigorates the debate about the emergence of 'the public sphere' in the later Stuart period.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199258338
ISBN-10: 0199258333
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 32 black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 146 x 223 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

A remarkable study of the culture of late-seventeenth-century politics and the politics of the period's scientific, economic and literary culture.
Representation and Misrepresentation has an importance even beyond its field... Knights writes a new kind of history... Reading this book one not only appreciates a thoroughly researched, well-structured work of scholarship, but is dazzled by the possibilities it opens for a new political history.
This brilliant book deserves a wide audience.

Notă biografică

Mark Knights is Senior Lecturer in British History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich