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Cambridge University Press The Victorians and the Stuart Heritage: Interpretations of a Discordant Past

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This 1995 book explores what the Victorians said about the Stuart past, with particular emphasis on changing interpretations of Cromwell and the Puritans. It analyses in detail the historical writings of Henry Hallam, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Rawson Gardiner, placing them in a context that stresses the importance of religious controversy for the nineteenth century. The book argues that the Victorians found the Stuart past problematic because they perceived a connection between the religious disputes of the seventeenth century and the sectarian discord of their own age. Cromwell and the Puritans became an acceptable part of the national past only as the English state lost its Anglican exclusiveness. The tendency to accommodate Cromwell and the Puritans, particularly in the work of Gardiner, thus reflected a process of nation building that sought to remove sectarian divisions and which reached its climax as the Victorian age came to its close. Review "...a perceptive and nuanced study of the manner in which successive generations of nineteenth-century historians interpreted the Puritan Revolution....[a] richly textured intellectual history." American Historical Review"...he [Lang] charts a course through a broad sea of biographical, intellectual, and historical particulars from the seventeenth through late nineteenth centuries without losing his readers' attention....a useful addition to any undergraduate library's history collection." Dorothy-Bundy Potter, History"This remains a valuable scholarly study, showing how one period of the past used another more distant past to forge its own identity." Doris Goldstein, Albion"Lang can congratulate himself on having added a stimulating and informative study to the historiography of Victorian historiography. He reminds us of the manner in which the preoccupations of an era's leaders appeal to the past for legitimation. Such studies become hazardous only if they imply-as Lang's does not-that all works of history are equally condemned tp present-mindedness and if they deny that products of the painstaking as well as empathetic scholarship of earlier centuries may retain permanent value as foundation stones on which successors may build." Walter L. Arnstein, Victorian Studies Book Description An exploration of how leading Victorian historians interpreted the Stuart past and the era of Cromwell, first published in 1995.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521474647
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Great Britain > Stuart Britain
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 13 April 1995
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

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