Title: Bolingbroke and his circle; the politics of nostalgia in the age of Walpole.
Authors: Kramnick, Isaac.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 1968
Subjects: Bolingbroke, Henry St. John,; Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Friends and associates.; Nostalgia Political aspects Great Britain.; Great Britain Politics and government; Great Britain Intellectual life
Abstract: "Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (16 September 1678? 12 December 1751) was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology. In 1715 he supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 which sought to overthrow the new king George I. Escaping to France he became foreign minister for the Pretender. He was attainted for treason, but reversed course and was allowed to return to England in 1723. He is best known as the philosopher of the Country Party. In Britain, "Bolingbroke" is pronounced Bullingbrook or Bullenbrook."--Wikipedia.
Contents: The "anti-minister": the political career and writings of Lord Bolingbroke -- Walpole and the new economic order -- Bolingbroke and the New England -- Bolingbroke on natural law, society, and the origins of government -- Walpole on politics and the English constitution -- Bolingbroke on politics and the English constitution -- Defoe and the literature of the new age -- The nostalgia of Augustan poets -- The ambivalence of the Augustan commonwealthman.