Download or read book The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker written by William Thomas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one of the great literary rows of the nineteenth century, between one of its greatest historians and one of its sharpest critics. The quarrel began in the House of Commons during the debates of 1831-2 on parliamentary reform and was continued in the quarterly reviews. Even in a political setting, it had a historical dimension. Croker taunted Macaulay for being ignorant of the French Revolution. Macaulay replied by pouring scorn on Croker's accuracy as editor of Boswell's Johnson. The bitterness of the clash made subsequent compromise impossible. Sixteen years later, Croker wrote a long damning review of the first two volumes of Macaulay's History of England. Posterity admires success, and as Macaulay's writings have eclipsed Croker's it has usually been assumed that Croker was moved by mere political spite. In this highly readable study, William Thomas shows that this verdict is unfair, that Croker's political opinions were both less rancorous and more interesting, and that Macaulay's own scholarship was far from faultless. He also considers each man's historical writing alongside his politics and argues that, while Croker's critical method was sharpened by his politics, Macaulay's political opinions were much more independent of party, and that he is not the typical Whig historian of legend. William Thomas illustrates how the two men actually had many ideas in common, and the commentators who have seen only political dislike have missed the real purpose of the History of England and what made it the most successful historical work in English literature.

Download or read book Macaulay s Essay on Addison written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macaulay s Essay on Frederic the Great written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macaulay s essay on Milton ed by J G Croswell written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macaulay s Essay on Lord Clive written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macaulay s Essay on Warren Hastings written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Students Notes on Lord Macaulay s Essay on Lord Mahon s War of the Succession in Spain etc With a map written by Augustus Henry BEESLY and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macaulay s Life of Johnson and Essay on Addison written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macaulay s first essay on William Pitt earl of Chatham ed by D Salmon written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lord Macaulay Being the Members Prize Essay for 1900 written by David Hutchison MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macaulay s Essay on the Earl of Chatham With a General Introduction to the Study of Macaulay and an Essay on Literary Characteristics written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macaulay and Son written by Catherine Hall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Thomas Macaulay's vision of England, tracing the influence of his father's career as a colonial governor and drawing illuminating comparisons between the two men.

Download or read book Macaulay s Life of Samuel Johnson with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revolves around Thomas Babington Macaulay's perspective of Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions through his publication of A Dictionary of the English Language. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history."

Download or read book Macaulay s Life of Samuel Johnson with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson written by Томас Бабингтон Маколей and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-08-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren written by Kate Davies and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren were radical friends in a revolutionary era. They produced definitive histories of the English Civil War and the American Revolution, attacked the British government and the United States federal constitution, and instigated a debate on women's rights which inspired Mary Wollstonecraft and other feminists. Setting Warren and Macaulay's lives and writing in the context of the revolutionary Atlantic, this is the first book to consider one ofthe eighteenth century's most important political friendships.

Download or read book The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay Vol 1 written by William Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of "The History of England". This work shows how, spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay's pen. It states that these unique manuscripts held at Trinity College, Cambridge, are most revealing of all his writings. Volume 1 includes an Introduction and entries for 20 October 1838–12 June 1840.

Download or read book A Commentary on Macaulay s History of England written by Charles Firth and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Commentary on Macaulay's History of England. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.