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Writing the Victorian Constitution

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Authors:
  1. Ian Ward

    1. Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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  • Revisits four key texts of English constitutional thought— Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Lord Macaulay’s History of England, Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution and Albert Venn Dicey’s Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution
  • Offers a fresh study of the English constitution as it evolved over the course of the ‘long’ Victorian age
  • Appeals to scholars and students of English political and legal history in the nineteenth century

Part of the book series: Palgrave Modern Legal History (PMLH)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction: The Written Constitution

    • Ian Ward
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Revolution of Mr Burke

    • Ian Ward
    Pages 25-62

  4. The Great Dramatist

    • Ian Ward
    Pages 63-98

  5. The Greatest Victorian

    • Ian Ward
    Pages 99-146

  6. Dicey’s Law

    • Ian Ward
    Pages 147-193

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 195-218
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Ian Ward

About the author

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Writing the Victorian Constitution

  • Authors: Ian Ward

  • Series Title: Palgrave Modern Legal History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96676-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96675-5Published: 10 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07231-5Published: 20 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96676-2Published: 21 August 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2947-6186

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-6194

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 218

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Political History

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