
Writing the Victorian Constitution
Ian Ward(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 10. September 2018
Book
Hardback
V, 218 pages
978-3-319-96675-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English constitutional thought-Edmund Burke, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Walter Bagehot and Albert Venn Dicey. Stretching from the French Revolution to the death of Queen Victoria, their writing is both representative of and formative to the Victorian constitution. Ian Ward traces how constitutional writing changed over the course of the long nineteenth century, from the poetics of Burke and the romance of Macaulay, to the pragmatism of Bagehot and the jurisprudence of Dicey. A century on, our perception of the English constitution is still shaped by this contested history.
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Series
Edition
2018 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
V, 218 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-96675-5 (9783319966755)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-96676-2
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Person
Ian Ward
is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK. He has written a number of books on related areas of English legal and constitutional history, including most recently
Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England
(Hart, 2014) and
Law and Brontës
(Palgrave, 2012).
Content
1. The Written Constitution.- 2. The Revolution of Mr Burke.- 3. The Great Dramatist.- 4. The Greatest Victorian.- 5. Dicey's Law.