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Bolingbroke and His Circle : The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole /
"Behind this study lie two questions. Why is Bolingbroke, known primarily as a rationalist philosopher of the Enlightenment, so worshipped by English conservatives who are themselves, since Burke, so set against what the Enlightenment represents in political, social, and religious thought? The...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Preface to Paperback Edition
- Contents
- Introduction: Bolingbroke, Political Thought, and the Augustan Age
- I. The "Anti-Minister": The Political Career and Writings of Lord Bolingbroke
- II. Walpole and the New Economic Order
- III. Bolingbroke and the New England
- IV. Bolingbroke on Natural Law, Society, and the Origins of Government
- V. Walpole on Politics and the English Constitution
- VI. Bolingbroke on Politics and the English Constitution
- VII. Defoe and the Literature of the New Age
- VIII. The Nostalgia of the Augustan Poets
- IX. The Ambivalence of the Augustan Commonwealthman
- Conclusion: Toward a Reassessment of Bolingbroke
- Notes
- Index