Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars And the Passions of Posterity - Softcover

Worden, Blair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141006943 ISBN 13: 9780141006949

Publisher: Penguin, 2002

Synopsis

An examination of the reputation of the principal Roundheads (Cromwell, Ludlow, Hampden and others) and how over the past 350 years each generation has projected its own concerns on the most traumatic event in England's history. Worden discusses several great works including Ludlow's MEMOIRS (the best-selling account of the Revolution which was only exposed as a forgery 300 years after its publication) and Thomas Carlyle's LETTERS AND SPEECHES OF OLIVER CROMWELL, and thus shows how the fighting has intellectually never really stopped.

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About the Author

Blair Worden is Professor of History at the University of Sussex and regularly reviews for the Sunday Telegraph, The Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141006943
• ISBN 13: 9780141006949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400