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Political Propaganda in Augustan England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

W. A. Speck
W. A. Speck
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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The term ‘Augustan’, which students of English literature have found convenient to describe writers and their works in a period stretching roughly from Dryden to Dr Johnson, can also be useful to historians for defining the century between the Restoration of Charles II and the accession of George III. These were the dates I had in mind when I chose the title of this paper, but although I have kept 1660 as a starting point the terminal date is nearer 1740 than 1760, and the argument is largely confined to the period between the Popish Plot and the collapse of the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 22 , December 1972 , pp. 17 - 32
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1972

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