The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

Volume 4, September 1841 December 1848
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-08899-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 421 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 679 g

The fourth volume of Thomas Pinney's acclaimed edition of Macaulay's letters covers the period between September 1841 and December 1848, in which Macaulay is shown keeping up an active political life as MP for Edinburgh and member of Lord John Russell's Whig Cabinet. At the same time his literary reputation is extended by The Lays of Ancient Rome, the collected Essays, and, at the end of the period spanned by this volume, the triumphant publication of the first two volumes of the History of England. In the same years Macaulay was enjoying perhaps the most satisfactory period of his private life: we see him comfortably established in the Albany, enjoying the society of his sister and her family, taking part as a leading figure in Whig political and literary circles, and confidently at work on the book which was to crown his fame.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacAulay, Thomas

Pinney, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Bachelor of the Albany, September 1842-1842; 2. To the Last Edinburgh Review, 1843-1844; 3. Return to Office and Defeat at Edinburgh, 7 January 1845-30 July 1847; 4. The History of England, 2 August 1847-30 December 1848; 5. Letters of Uncertain Date, 1830-1847.