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Author:

Patterson, Annabel M.

Title:

Nobody's perfect : a new Whig interpretation of history / Annabel Patterson.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

ix, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Whig Party (Great Britain)
Historiography--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Historiography--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Political science--Great Britain--History.
Great Britain--Historiography.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-275) and index.

Contents:

Two steps forward, one step backwards : William Wordsworth's revisionism. Reading the Letter : a (short) chapter of its own -- Inventing postcolonialism : Burke's and Barry's Paradise lost and regained -- Meaning of names : Thompson's Marvell and the Whigs -- Two snuffboxes : recovering the Whig in Reynolds -- Thomas Erskine : the great defender -- Two steps forward, one step backwards : William Wordsworth's revisionism.

ISBN:

9780300092882 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300092881 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49683580

LCCN:

2002006398

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)