Illusory consensus

by Alexander Pettit

1997 254 pages eng

Consensus (Social sciences) Great britain, politics and government, 18th century Politik Politics and government

Alexander Pettit analyzes the formation of and the reaction against the notion of a unified opposition to England's de facto prime minister Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), the "great man" of Scriblerian satire who was reviled throughout the 1730s for his hostility to the belles lettres, his alleged …

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