Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart... - Knights, Mark

Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart BritainPartisanship and Political Culture\nAuthor(s): Mark Knights\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780199258338, 978-0199258338\nSynopsis\nIn this original and illuminating study, Mark Knights reveals how the political culture of the eighteenth century grew out of earlier trends and innovations. Arguing that the period [tel] needs to be seen as the second stage of a seventeenth-century revolution that ran on until [url] the book traces the development of the public as an arbiter of politics, the growth of a national political culture, the shift towards a representative society, a crisis of public discourse and credibility, and a political enlightenment rooted in local and national partisan conflict. \n\nThe 'public' acquired a new status in the later Stuart period as a result of frequent elections, the lapse of pre-publication licensing, the emergenc.