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A Liberal Descent - Victorian historians and the English past (Paperback, Revised)
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A Liberal Descent - Victorian historians and the English past (Paperback, Revised)
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The idea of a 'Whig interpretation' of English history incorporates
the two fundamental notions of progress and continuity. The former
made it possible to read English history as a 'success story', the
latter endorsed a pragmatic, gradualist political style as the
foundation of English freedom. Dr Burrow's book explore these
ideas, and the tensions between them in studies of four major
Victorian historians: Macaulay, Stubbs, Freeman and (as something
of an anti type) Froude. It analyses their works in terms of their
rhetorical suggestiveness as well as their explicit arguments, and
attempts to place them in their cultural and historiographical
context. In doing so, the book also seeks to establish the
significance for the Victorians of three great crises of English
history - the Norman conquest, the reformation and the revolution
of the seventeenth century - and the nature and limits of the
self-confidence they were able to derive from the national past.
The book will interest students and teachers working on
nineteenth-century English history, literature or social and
political thought, the history of ideas, and legal and
constitutional history. It will also be of value to the general
reader interested in Victorian literature and cultural history.
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