(Source: Palgrave)
Palgrave is
publishing a book on four key texts of English constitutional law (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)
ABOUT THE 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.
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).
More information
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