Chichester Towers.

Edité par New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1966.

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VG orig. cream canvas in price-clipped illus. dj. xvi, 114 p.; front. (bustof Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, by Isaac Gosset); 23.5 cm. OnWhig preferment in 1741 From the front jacket flap: Intrigue, humor, and illuminating insights into the social structure of eighteenth-century Englandare entwined in this engaging work of historical craftsmanship.The essenceof the story unfolded in Chichester Towers is simple: a certain archdeaconwho was offered a deanery inan English cathedral wrote a letter stating why he should decline the offer. Reading the letter, then pursuing its implications, is like tossing a pebble into a pool and watching the ever-wideningrings on the surface of the water. A contested by-election for the countyof Sussex is going on at the same time. That most famous of borough-mongers, the Duke of Newcastle, happens to be directing the electoral campaign inSussex for Sir Robert Walpole's declining administration and on that account, no less than for the Whig cause in general, has offered the vacant deanery to a master wirepuller, the Rev. Thomas Ball, Archdeacon of Chichester.In tracking down the personalities and machinations that lie implicit in the letter, Mr. Curtis soon fills the stage with a galaxy of characters who act out a historical comedy of almost inconceivable complexity. Two meaningsreveal themselves as intimately associated: the story illustrates what used to be known as the alliance between church and state; and it suggests thedegree to which ecclesiastical politics were subordinated to the secular needs of the state. The author mirrors eighteenth-century English society, revealing fascinating aspects of the structure of social subordination and political gamesmanship. Inherently the story has a timeless significance. 1st edition. Binding is Hardcover.…

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Chichester Towers.
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Curtis, L. P. (Lewis Perry)
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New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1966.

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