Sinner, Scapegoat, or Savior: Macaulay and His Legacies, Con and Pro

Abstract

The three books concerning Macaulay listed above have appeared in the last five years. One reason for this proliferation, especially applicable to Professor Robert Sullivan’s study, is that since Professor John Clive died before following his Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (New York: Knopf, 1973) with a projected second volume, there has been no full-scale modern biography of Macaulay. A second reason is the expansion of available information provided by two now completed scholarly projects, Macaulay’s Correspondence, edited by Professor Thomas Pinney (New York: Cambridge UP, 1974-81) and his Journal, edited by William Thomas (London: Routledge, 2008), both of which have benefited the writers in question.