Bøker av Annabel Patterson

Traces the origins and meanings of the Aesopian fable, as well as its function in Renaissance culture and subsequently. The author shows how the fable worked as a medium of political analysis and communication, especially from or on behalf of the politically powerless.

Focusing on the transmission to the colonies of seventeenth-century English liberal ideas, Annabel Patterson rediscovers an important phase in the development of liberal thought. The author is particularly concerned with the ways in which liberal ideas were transmitted and with those who sought to ensure the survival of the liberal canon.

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today - the 'Great Books Debate' and the question of teaching the canon of English literature. Her superbly formulated moderate stance will be a welcome attribute to the debate.

Charles II's first and most important parliament sat for eighteen years without a general election, earning itself the sobriquet "Long". This book is the study of this Restoration Parliament. It recovers a crucial period of parliamentary history, that helps to explain the Glorious Revolution, and opens a discussion about historiographical method.

An account of liberal thought from its roots in 17th-century English thinking to the end of the 18th century. The author rescues the term "Whig" from the low regard attached to it, and argues that although Whigs may have strayed from liberal principles on occasion, many were true progressives.