Nobody's perfect
Subtitle: a new Whig interpretation of history
By: Annabel Patterson.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Whig Party (Great Britain); Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Political science -- Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- Historiography; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-275)  and index.
Table of contents: title: John Almon : more than a bookseller; title: Reading the Letter : a (short) chapter of its own; title: Inventing postcolonialism : Burke's and Barry's Paradise lost and regained; title: The meaning of names : Thompson's Marvell and the Whigs; title: The two snuffboxes : recovering the Whig in Reynolds; title: Thomas Erskine : the great defender; title: Two steps forward, one step backwards : William Wordsworth's revisionism.