2. Contexte politique

1. Béranger, Jean. Les Hommes de lettres et la politique en Angleterre de la révolution de 1688 à la mort de George Ier. Bordeaux: Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 1968. 658 pp.
2. Black, Jeremy, ed. Britain in the Age of Walpole. London: Macmillan, 1984. 260 pp.
3. Colley, Linda. In Defiance of Oligarchy. The Tory Party, 1714-1760. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. viii + 375 pp.
4. Dickinson, Harry T. Liberty and Property. Political Ideology in Eighteenth Century Britain. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. x + 369 pp.
5. Goldgar, Bertrand A. The Curse of Party: Swift’s Relations with Addison and Steele. Lincoln: Nebraska UP, 1961. 206 pp.
6. Habermas, Jürgen. L’espace public. Archéologie de la publicité comme dimension constitutive de la société bourgeoise (1962). Trad. Marc B. de Launay. Paris: Payot, 1988. 324 pp.
7. Holmes, Geoffrey, ed. Britain After the Glorious Revolution, 1689-1714. London: Macmillan(1969), 1984 ix + 245 pp.
8. Holmes, Geoffrey. Politics, Religion and Society in England, 1679-1742. London: Hambledon Press, 1986. xviii + 367 pp.
9. Kramnick, Isaac. Bolinbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1968. 321 pp.