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Annabel Patterson's "Reading Between the Lines" tackles a central
topic in literary studies, the "Great Books Debate" and the
question of teaching the canon of English literature, providing a
moderate stance between the Western canon's radical opponents and
its zealous protectors. It aims to mediate between conservative
proponents of the traditional approach to literary education, and
those who insist that literature is an empty category filled only
according to society's needs.
Annabel Patterson's "Reading Between the Lines" tackles a central
topic in literary studies, the "Great Books Debate" and the
question of teaching the canon of English literature, providing a
moderate stance between the Western canon's radical opponents and
its zealous protectors. It aims to mediate between conservative
proponents of the traditional approach to literary education, and
those who insist that literature is an empty category filled only
according to society's needs.
Early Modern Liberalism rediscovers an important phase in the
development of liberal thought. Despite the fact that 'liberalism'
as a term was not applied to political thought or political parties
in England until late in the eighteenth century, Annabel Patterson
argues that its central ideas were formulated by
seventeenth-century English writers in defiance of their society's
norms, and then transmitted to the American colonies. The author is
particularly concerned with the means and agents of transmission,
with those who ensured that the liberal canon would be preserved,
expanded, republished and dispersed; for example, the
eighteenth-century philanthropist Thomas Hollis, among whose heroes
were Milton, Marvell, Locke and Algernon Sidney. Framed by chapters
on Hollis and Adams, this book shows what early modern liberals had
in common and reopens the transatlantic conversation that began in
the seventeenth century.
While the term "liberalism" was not applied to political thought or political parties in England until the late eighteenth century, the author argues that its central ideas were formulated by seventeenth-century English writers in defiance of their society's norms, and then transmitted to the American colonies. In this study Annabel Patterson is particularly concerned with the means and agents of transmission, and with those who sought to ensure that the liberal canon would be preserved, dispersed and republished.
This new study of Andrew Marvell offers a state-of-the-art guide to
one of the most intriguing and elusive poets of the seventeenth
century. Hero to the eighteenth century for his published defences
of parliamentary government and religious toleration, Marvell was
friend and defender of Milton, underground author of satires
against the Restoration court, paradoxically, promoted by T.S.
Eliot for a diametrically opposite set of qualities and
achievements - poise, detachment, an ethos both world-excluding and
hypercivilised, not to mention the most perfect poems we have on
"the figure in the landscape". Annabel Patterson, known for her
ability to make serious scholarship engaging, explains how
Marvell's complex personality and beliefs produce these
contradictory responses. The book provides comprehensive
introductions to Marvell's different self-representations, and
places the most famous poems, such as The Garden and Horatian Ode,
in the dialectic they lose when read only in anthologies.
"Reading Holinshed's Chronicles" is the first major study of the
greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed's "Chronicles"--a
massive history of England, Scotland, and Ireland--has been
traditionally read as the source material for many of Shakespeare's
plays or as an archaic form of history-writing. Annabel Patterson
insists that the "Chronicles" be read in their own right as an
important and inventive cultural history.
Although we know it by the name of Raphael Holinshed, editor and
major compiler of the 1577 edition, the "Chronicles" was the work
of a group, a collaboration between antiquarians, clergymen,
members of parliament, poets, publishers, and booksellers. Through
a detailed reading, Patterson argues that the "Chronicles" convey
rich insights into the way the Elizabethan middle class understood
their society. Responding to the crisis of disunity which resulted
from the Reformation, the authors of the "Chronicles" embodied and
encouraged an ideal of justice, what we would now call liberalism,
that extended beyond the writing of history into the realms of
politics, law, economics, citizenship, class, and gender. Also,
since the second edition of 1587 was called in by the Privy Council
and revised under supervision, the work constitutes an important
test case for the history of early modern censorship.
An essential book for all students of Tudor history and literature,
"Reading Holinshed's Chronicles" brings into full view a long
misunderstood masterpiece of sixteenth-century English culture.
Charles II's first and most important parliament sat for eighteen
years without a general election, earning itself the sobriquet
"Long." In 1661 this parliament began in eager compliance with the
new king. Gradually disillusioned by Charles's maneuvers, however,
its members came to demand more control of the economy, religion,
and foreign policy, starting a struggle that led to the Exclusion
crisis. This lively book is the first full study of this
Restoration Parliament. Using parliamentary diaries, newsletters,
memoirs, letters from members of parliament, scofflaw pamphlets,
and the king's own speeches, Annabel Patterson describes this
second Long Parliament in an innovative and challenging way,
stressing that how its records were kept and circulated is an
important part of the story. Because the parliamentary debates of
this age were jealously guarded from public knowledge, unofficial
sources of information flourished. Often these are more candid or
colorful than official records. Eighteenth-century historians,
especially if Whiggish, recycled many of them for posterity. The
book, therefore, not only recovers a crucial period of
parliamentary history, one that helps to explain the Glorious
Revolution, it also opens a discussion about historiographical
method.
Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil's Eclogues from the Middle
Ages to our own century. She argues that Virgilian pastoral spoke
to the intellectuals of each place and time of their own condition.
The study reinspects our standard system of periodization in
literary and art history and challenges some of the current
premises of modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1987.
Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil's Eclogues from the Middle
Ages to our own century. She argues that Virgilian pastoral spoke
to the intellectuals of each place and time of their own condition.
The study reinspects our standard system of periodization in
literary and art history and challenges some of the current
premises of modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1987.
Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political
history in early modern England into an engine for investigating
our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is,
broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, approached not
theoretically but through the lens of fiction. Novels are uniquely
capable of dealing with abstract problems by embodying them in the
experience of persons, thereby rendering them more "real."
Patterson takes twelve novels from (almost) all over the world:
India, Africa, Turkey, Crete, the Balkans, Palestine, Afghanistan,
South America, and Mexico, novels which illustrate the dire effects
of some of the following: imperialism, partition, annexation,
ethnic and religious strife, boundaries redrawn by aggression, the
virus of dictatorships, the vulnerability of small countries, and
the meddling of the Great Powers. All are highly instructive, and
excellent reads.
Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a
handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his
own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose
interventions in the major issues of the Restoration, religious
toleration, and what he called "arbitrary" as distinct from
parliamentary government. This is the first modern edition of all
Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and
annotation explaining the historical context. Four major scholars
of the Restoration era have collaborated to produce this truly
Anglo-American edition. From the Rehearsal Transpros'd, a
serio-comic best-seller which appeared with tacit permission from
Charles II himself, through the documentary Account of the Growth
of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Marvell established himself not
only as a model of liberal thought for the eighteenth century but
also as an irresistible new voice in political polemic, wittier,
more literary, and hence more readable than his contemporaries.
Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a
handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his
own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose
interventions in the major issues of the Restoration, religious
toleration, and what he called "arbitrary" as distinct from
parliamentary government. This is the first modern edition of all
Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and
annotation explaining the historical context. Four major scholars
of the Restoration era have collaborated to produce this truly
Anglo-American edition. From the Rehearsal Transpros'd, a
serio-comic best-seller which appeared with tacit permission from
Charles II himself, through the documentary Account of the Growth
of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Marvell established himself not
only as a model of liberal thought for the eighteenth century but
also as an irresistible new voice in political polemic, wittier,
more literary, and hence more readable than his contemporaries.
Is history driven more by principle or interest? Are ideas of
historical progress obsolete? Is it unforgivable to change one's
mind or political allegiance? Did the eighteenth century really
exchange the civilizing force of commercial advantage for political
conflict? In this new account of liberal thought from its roots in
seventeenth-century English thinking to the end of the eighteenth
century, Annabel Patterson tackles these important
historiographical questions. She rescues the term "whig" from the
low regard attached to it; denies the primacy of self-interest in
the political struggles of Georgian England; and argues that while
Whigs may have strayed from liberal principles on occasion
(nobody's perfect), nevertheless many were true progressives. In a
series of case studies, mainly from the reign of George III,
Patterson examines or re-examines the careers of such prominent
individuals as John Almon, Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Thomas Erskine, and, at the end of the century, William Wordsworth.
She also addresses a host of secondary characters, reshaping our
thinking about both well-known and lesser figures of the time.
Tracking a coherent, sustained, and adaptable liberalism throughout
the eighteenth century, Patterson overturns common assumptions of
political, cultural, and art historians. The author delivers fresh
insights into the careers of those who called themselves Whigs,
their place in British political thought, and the crucial
ramifications of this thinking in the American political arena.
In this imaginative and illuminating work, Annabel Patterson traces
the origins and meanings of the Aesopian fable, as well as its
function in Renaissance culture and subsequently. She shows how the
fable worked as a medium of political analysis and communication,
especially from or on behalf of the politically powerless.
Patterson begins with an analysis of the legendary "Life" of Aesop,
its cultural history and philosophical implications, a topic that
involves such widely separated figures as La Fontaine, Hegel, and
Vygotsky. The myth's origin is recovered here in the saving myth of
Aesop the Ethiopian, black, ugly, who began as a slave but become
both free and influential, a source of political wisdom. She then
traces the early modern history of the fable from Caxton, Lydgate,
and Henryson through the eighteenth century, focusing on such
figures as Spenser, Sidney, Lyly, Shakespeare, and Milton, as well
as the lesser-known John Ogilby, Sir Roger L'Estrange, and Samuel
Croxall.
Patterson discusses the famous fable of "The Belly and the
Members," which, because it articulated in symbolic terms some of
the most intransigent problems in political philosophy and
practice, was still going strong as a symbolic text in the
mid-nineteenth century, where it was focused on industrial
relations by Karl Marx and by George Eliot against electoral
reform.
Holinshed's Chronicles - a massive history of England, Scotland,
and Ireland - has traditionally been read as the source material
for many of Shakespeare's plays or as an archaic form of history
writing. In the first major study of this sixteenth-century
masterpiece, Annabel Patterson insists that the Chronicles be read
in their own right as an important and inventive cultural history.
Patterson examines the remarkable collaborative authorship of this
history. Although it is known by the name of Raphael Holinshed,
editor and major compiler of the 1577 edition, the Chronicles was
the work of a group, a collaboration between antiquarians,
clergymen, members of Parliament, poets, publishers, and
booksellers. Also, since the second edition of 1587 was called in
by the Privy Council and revised under supervision, the work
constitutes an important test case for the history of early modern
censorship. Through a detailed reading, Patterson argues that the
Chronicles convey rich insights into the way the Elizabethan middle
class understood their society. Responding to the crisis of
disunity that resulted from the Reformation, the authors of the
Chronicles embodied and encouraged an ideal of justice, what we
would now call liberalism, that extended beyond the writing of
history into the realms of politics, law, economics, citizenship,
class, and gender.
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