Plots of Opportunity
Download or Read eBook Plots of Opportunity PDF written by Albert D. Pionke and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Albert D. Pionke |
| Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780814209486 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0814209483 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Plots of Opportunity by : Albert D. Pionke
Book excerpt: After surveying England's evolving theories of representative politics and individual and collective secretive practices, Pionke traces the intersection of democracy and secrecy through a series of case histories. Using works by Thomas Carlyle, Wilkie Colins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, John Henry Newman, and others, along with periodicals, histoires, and parliamentary documents of the period, he shows the rhetorical prominence of groups such as the Freemasons, the Thugs, the Carbonari, the Fenians, and the Jesuits in Victorian democratic discourse. --book cover.
