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- catalog abstract "Alexander Pettit analyzes the formation of and the reaction against the notion of a unified opposition to England's de facto prime minister Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), the "great man" of Scriblerian satire who was reviled throughout the 1730s for his hostility to the belles lettres, his alleged disregard of the royal prerogative, and his concentration of power in an oligarchy of parliamentary "placemen." The discussion draws extensively on ephemeral plays, sermons, pamphlets, and newspapers that in their own day were regarded as significant contributions to the political debate. Pettit shows that the myth of coherent anti-Walpoleanism was promoted vigorously by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), cofounder of the popular opposition weekly, the Craftsman. But Pettit argues that much of the anti-Walpole literature of the 1730s responds anxiously to Bolingbroke's prescriptive theorizing and questions or criticizes the terms of his appeals to consensus. The opposition was fundamentally in disagreement about how to formulate its objection to modern government. Bolingbroke's reductive fantasy of the opposition has been regarded charitably by modern commentators, most of whom have chosen to regard the "print-wars" as the occasion for Bolingbroke's major political treatises or as background to the satire of his friends, the Scriblerians. This emphasis on a small and interconnected group of writers and sources, however, has caused scholars to neglect the opposition's diversity and its lack of coherence.".
- catalog contributor b10264478.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1727-1760.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "1. Bolingbroke's Remarks on the History of England in the Craftsman and Elsewhere -- 2. Bolingbroke's Analogic Historiography -- 3. Squaring Off -- or Not -- over the Revolution of 1688 -- 4. The Carolinist Challenge -- 5. Carolinism and the Church: The Grub-street Journal and the Curious Case of Dr. Francis Hare -- 6. Acting Out the Unstable Opposition.".
- catalog description "Alexander Pettit analyzes the formation of and the reaction against the notion of a unified opposition to England's de facto prime minister Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), the "great man" of Scriblerian satire who was reviled throughout the 1730s for his hostility to the belles lettres, his alleged disregard of the royal prerogative, and his concentration of power in an oligarchy of parliamentary "placemen." The discussion draws extensively on ephemeral plays, sermons, pamphlets, and newspapers that in their own day were regarded as significant contributions to the political debate. Pettit shows that the myth of coherent anti-Walpoleanism was promoted vigorously by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), cofounder of the popular opposition weekly, the Craftsman. But Pettit argues that much of the anti-Walpole literature of the 1730s responds anxiously to Bolingbroke's prescriptive theorizing and questions or criticizes the terms of his appeals to consensus. The opposition was fundamentally in disagreement about how to formulate its objection to modern government. Bolingbroke's reductive fantasy of the opposition has been regarded charitably by modern commentators, most of whom have chosen to regard the "print-wars" as the occasion for Bolingbroke's major political treatises or as background to the satire of his friends, the Scriblerians. This emphasis on a small and interconnected group of writers and sources, however, has caused scholars to neglect the opposition's diversity and its lack of coherence.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-236) and index.".
- catalog extent "254 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Illusory consensus.".
- catalog identifier "0874135923 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Illusory consensus.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Illusory consensus.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1727-1760.".
- catalog subject "941.07/2/092 20".
- catalog subject "Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751.".
- catalog subject "Consensus (Social sciences)".
- catalog subject "DA501.B6 P44 1997".
- catalog subject "Polemics.".
- catalog subject "Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Bolingbroke's Remarks on the History of England in the Craftsman and Elsewhere -- 2. Bolingbroke's Analogic Historiography -- 3. Squaring Off -- or Not -- over the Revolution of 1688 -- 4. The Carolinist Challenge -- 5. Carolinism and the Church: The Grub-street Journal and the Curious Case of Dr. Francis Hare -- 6. Acting Out the Unstable Opposition.".
- catalog title "Illusory consensus : Bolingbroke and the polemical response to Walpole, 1730-1737 / Alexander Pettit.".
- catalog type "text".