The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742-1763J. C. D. Clark The Memoirs of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715-63) rank with those of Horace Walpole and Lord Hervey as classics of eighteenth-century political literature. They have an additional significance as a record of the momentous political crisis of 1754-7, which heralded the break-up of the early Hanoverian party system and laid the foundations for the pattern of alignments of the last half of the century. Waldegrave's Memoirs, first published in 1821, played a major part in the development of the Whig interpretation of the English past by apparently providing evidence in support of the Holland House thesis of a new royal absolutism, devised at Leicester House in the 1750s and implemented on the accession of George III in 1760. In an important introduction, Dr Clark unravels the nineteenth-century historiographical misconceptions of this problem and shows how Waldegrave's text was misused for polemical Whig purposes. |
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Contents
The Family Background | 21 |
The Publication of the Memoirs | 101 |
The Text of the Memoirs | 134 |
Memoirs of the Seven Years War | 212 |
An Allegory of Leicester House | 226 |
Speeches in the House of Lords 17421763 | 242 |
Notes from Plutarch | 315 |
Notes from Montaigne | 316 |
Notes on Constitutional Law | 323 |
Notes on English History | 329 |
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The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742-1763 J. C. D. Clark No preview available - 1988 |
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