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Backlash - Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne (Hardcover)
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Backlash - Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne (Hardcover)
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A country bitterly divided between two political parties. Populist
mobs rising in support of a reactionary rabble-rouser. Foreign
interference in the political process. Strained relations between
Britain and Europe. These are not recent headlines they are from
the year 1710, when Queen Anne ruled Britain. In her engagingly
written Backlash, Rachel Carnell tells the fascinating and
entertaining account of the reign of Queen Anne and the true story
behind the fall of the Whig government imaginatively depicted in
the 2018 film The Favourite. As Carnell shows, the truth was
significantly different and in many ways more interesting than what
the film depicted. The backlash began in 1709 when the Whigs
arrested a popular female Tory political satirist and then
impeached a provocative High Church clergyman for preaching a
sermon repudiating the ideals of parliamentary monarchy and
religious tolerance. The impeachment trial backfired, and mobs
surged in the streets supporting the Tory preacher and threatening
religious minorities. With charges dropped against the satirist, by
1710 she had written a best-selling sequel. Queen Anne was careful
and diligent in her monarchical duties. She tried to run a
government balanced between the parties, but finally torn between
the Whigs (including her longtime friends the Duke and Duchess of
Marlborough) and the proto-Brexiteer Tories, she dissolved
Parliament and called for elections. This brought in a majority for
the Tories, who swiftly began passing reactionary legislation.
While the Whigs would return to power after Anne's death in 1714
and reverse the Tory policies, this little-known era offers an
important historical perspective on the populist backlashes in the
United States and United Kingdom today.
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