Review:
This helpful volume provides another demonstration of the value of integrating historical and literary studies...Gerrard keeps faith with the complexities, inconsistencies, and ambiguities of humankind and its artifacts. (Albion)
a significant contribution to the growing corpus of scholarship on the genesis of British nationalism in the 18th century. (Times Higher Education Supplement)
This is the first book-length study of Patriot art and politics, and performs the valuable task of isolating and elaborating upon a distinctive cluster of cultural achievements. The Patriot Opposition to Walpole is particularly conscientious in the way it anticipates artistic developments by post-Walpolean writers, and thus has important things to say about artistic manoeuvrings in the century as a whole. (Karen O'Brien, Cardiff University, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 19, part 2)
There is much to admire in the careful scholarship and the imaginative appreciation of literature and the arts that she brings to this well-written study. (H.T. Dickinson, University of Edinburgh, EHR Apr. 97)
Dr Gerrard offers a valuable account of 'different aspects of perhaps the distinctive hallmark of the Patriot literary programme - its imaginative engagement with British myth and legend' ... this is really a work of 'historicist' ... literary criticism, in which Dr Gerrard increases our understanding of the ideological underpinnings of 'Patriot' poetry ... Dr Gerrard has new things to say about poets with whom we thought we were familiar. (J.A. Downie, Goldsmiths College, London, Parliamentary History, 13,3 (1996))
lively and wide-ranging study of the literary culture of the 'Patriot' opposition to Walpole ... This study surpasses its predecessorts ... in the precision with which it invokes the historical foreground of the period ... Throughout, the reader is shown how events in the domain of politics do not determine literary practice, but create realities to which writers respond with varying degrees of wit and imagination. (David Womersley, Jesus College, Oxford, RES New Series, Vol. XLVIII, No. 190 (1997))
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