caa a22 4500 386391319 CHVBK 20180307112118.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/4050088 doi S0095139000051024 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/4050088 Phillips John A. The Social Calculus: Deference and Defiance in Later Georgian England [Elektronische Daten] [John A. Phillips] The history of the long reign of George III has recently been shaken by a vigorous and determined revisionism. A temblor of this magnitude has not been felt since Sir Lewis Namier mounted his prosopographical revolution more than half a century ago. Indeed, it has been suggested that J. C. D. Clark's English Society actually will surpass the influence of Namier's Structure of Politics. If so, it is difficult to imagine the combined impact of English Society, Rebellion and Revolution, The Dynamics of Change, The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, the host of articles already published, and the plethora of words certain to be typeset in the relatively near future. Perhaps Clark's relentless torrent of prose will relegate to the historiographical scrap heap virtually all existing scholarship about the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in favor of his corrected model of Hanoverian England. Already Clark claims that the standard account depicting eighteenth-century England as "an economically progressive society, increasingly secular and individualist in its ethos and distinctively demarcated from its European contemporaries” is, quite simply, "no longer tenable.” Clark's most recent pronouncement declares that "the revisionists' [i.e. his] views of the period now command widespread acceptance.” The revisionist view cannot be fairly summarized in a single statement (though the phrases "ancien regime” and "confessional state” both manage nicely to encompass a great deal), but a passage Clark cites to illustrate England at the death of George III serves as a point of departure. Copyright © North American Conference on British Studies 1989 Albion Cambridge University Press 21/3(1989), 426-449 0095-1390 21:3<426 1989 21 ALB https://doi.org/10.2307/4050088 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/4050088 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Phillips John A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Albion Cambridge University Press 21/3(1989), 426-449 0095-1390 21:3<426 1989 21 ALB CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge