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Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell
Parliamentary History Book Series
Coordinator: Knights Mark
Language: EnglishSubject for Faction Displayed:
140 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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- Features several essays originating from a 2010 conference held at the Palace of Westminster to mark the tercentenary of Sacheverell?s impeachment
- Links events in Parliament to the public that was both fascinated and enraged by them
- Explores the nature of the public sphere and critiques Habermas?s notion of it
- Offers a form of cultural parliamentary history and addresses the many forms of partisanship evident in the ?rage of party?
Bibliographical Note
List of Contributors
Introduction: The View from 1710 (MARK KNIGHTS)
1. The Current State of Sacheverell Scholarship (W.A. SPECK)
2. The Spin Doctor: Sacheverell's Trial Speech and Political Performance in the Divided Society (BRIAN COWAN)
3. The ‘End of Censorship’ and the Politics of Toleration, from Locke to Sacheverell (GEOFF KEMP)
4. Sacheverell's Harlots: Non-Resistance on Paper and in Practice (EIRWEN E.C. NICHOLSON)
5. Irish Tories and Victims of Whig Persecution: Sacheverell Fever by Proxy (D.W. HAYTON)
6. Addison's Empire: Whig Conceptions of Empire in the Early 18th Century (STEVE PINCUS)
Note and Documents
7. A Non-Resisting, Passively Obedient Revolution: Lord North and Grey and the Tory Response to the Sacheverell Impeachment (DANIEL SZECHI)
Index