Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Nicolini, M.

Titolo:

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

Anno:

2018

Tipologia prodotto:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Lingua:

Inglese

Formato:

A Stampa

Referee:

No

Nome rivista:

POLEMOS

ISSN Rivista:

2036-4601

N° Volume:

12

Numero o Fascicolo:

1

Intervallo pagine:

123-145

Parole chiave:

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

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

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.

Id prodotto:

101827

Handle IRIS:

11562/977035

ultima modifica:

26 ottobre 2022

Citazione bibliografica:

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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