Publications

Authors:

Nicolini, M.

Title:

Turning Vanity Fair into The Coelestial City: England’s Legal Narratives of the Body Politic from Bunyan to Thackeray

Year:

2018

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

No

Name of journal:

POLEMOS

ISSN of journal:

2036-4601

N° Volume:

12

Number or Folder:

1

Page numbers:

123-145

Keyword:

legal narrative; mainstream narrative; alternative narrative; England; Thackeray; Bunyan

Short description of contents:

The article addresses the different narratives that characterize English constitutional history. It first examines the mainstream narrative, i. e., the retrospective reading of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century constitutional events dispensed by jurists and politicians in an attempt to pack the Establishment Constitution. It then focuses on the alternative legal narratives about the Constitution elaborated during the Civil War and the Restoration. Among them, it ascertains John Bunyan’s impact on the Establishment Constitution. Bunyan was a member of the New Model Army, a radical, and a Puritan who ended up in prison. Despite this background, he exerted a strong influence on Victorian society and on Thackeray’s representation of the body politic. As a consequence, Bunyan entered the political discourse in the first half of the nineteenth century when politicians started to reform English representative institutions, and therefore became part of the Establishment Constitution.

Product ID:

101827

Handle IRIS:

11562/977035

Last Modified:

October 26, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Nicolini, M., Turning Vanity Fair into The Coelestial City: England’s Legal Narratives of the Body Politic from Bunyan to Thackeray «POLEMOS» , vol. 12 , n. 1 , 2018 , pp. 123-145

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