Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandThe goal of Kings and Desperate Men is to provide a picture of eighteenth-century England up to the French Revolution. Kronenberger's work lies much closer to a social chronicle than an orthodox history, and is more concerned with manners and tastes than with treaties and wars. Kings and Desperate Men reveals what life was like for both aristocrats and commoners: their family lives, experience of larger society, habits, diet, fashions, religion, and artistic tastes. In tracing these topics for both city and country dwellers, he artfully communicates the very real division between the vivacity of London and the regular, fixed, and monotonous character of country life. The division is vital to understanding the age and the transformations it would experience.Yet Kronenberger does not ignore the more traditional historical landmarks. Kroenberger treats the characters of the leading political actors: Walpole, Bolingbroke, Burke, Fox, and Pitt, while providing the reader with a sweeping account of the formation of political parties and constitutional shifts of power between the monarchy and parliament. Students of the period who despair at its political complexities will fi nd much to appreciate in Kronenberger's condensed and easy to understand formulations.As for philosophy, Kronenberger refers to thinkers and ideas as they influence English life; especially Locke and Hume. Their ideas and reputations are explained as part of the character of society. The same is true for economics. More attention is given to the social gains of middle-class shopkeepers and the eighteenth-century zeal for stock speculation than to formal schools of thought. Especially notable is Kronenberger's treatment of both the arts and the artists of the eighteenth century-theatre, opera, music, literature, architecture, and painting. |
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Life in Eighteenth-century England Louis Kronenberger. ( ILLO B WALLACE COLLECTION , LONDON Originally published in 1942 by Alfred A. Knopf Published 2010. George III by Allan Ramsay.
Life in Eighteenth-century England Louis Kronenberger. ( ILLO B WALLACE COLLECTION , LONDON Originally published in 1942 by Alfred A. Knopf Published 2010. George III by Allan Ramsay.
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168 Country Matters The Country Gentleman Oxford and Cambridge Bath III . 175 IV . . 183 V. The Wesleyan Movement 189 ILLUSTRATIONS FRONTISPIECE 28 George III Morning Robert Walpole Horace Walpole Contents.
168 Country Matters The Country Gentleman Oxford and Cambridge Bath III . 175 IV . . 183 V. The Wesleyan Movement 189 ILLUSTRATIONS FRONTISPIECE 28 George III Morning Robert Walpole Horace Walpole Contents.
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ILLUSTRATIONS FRONTISPIECE 28 George III Morning Robert Walpole Horace Walpole Noon 50 50 70 Gin Lane 100 120 142 142 Night Jonathan Swift Alexander Pope High Street , Oxford Fashions of the Maccaronies John Wesley John Wilkes 178 186 ...
ILLUSTRATIONS FRONTISPIECE 28 George III Morning Robert Walpole Horace Walpole Noon 50 50 70 Gin Lane 100 120 142 142 Night Jonathan Swift Alexander Pope High Street , Oxford Fashions of the Maccaronies John Wesley John Wilkes 178 186 ...
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... 1713 – Treaty of Utrecht GEORGE I [ reigned 1714–27 ] 1715 – Jacobite rebellion 1719- Robinson Crusoe 1720 - South Sea Bubble 1721 – beginning of the Walpole administration 1722 – Wood's Halfpence 1727 - Gulliver's Travels GEORGE II ...
... 1713 – Treaty of Utrecht GEORGE I [ reigned 1714–27 ] 1715 – Jacobite rebellion 1719- Robinson Crusoe 1720 - South Sea Bubble 1721 – beginning of the Walpole administration 1722 – Wood's Halfpence 1727 - Gulliver's Travels GEORGE II ...
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1742 – fall of Walpole 1745 -- second Jacobite rebellion 1749 - Tom Jones 1755 – Johnson's Dictionary 1756 – Seven Years ' War begins 1759 — fall of Quebec GEORGE III ( reigned 1760–1820 ] 1763 - Wilkes arrested 1768 – Royal Academy ...
1742 – fall of Walpole 1745 -- second Jacobite rebellion 1749 - Tom Jones 1755 – Johnson's Dictionary 1756 – Seven Years ' War begins 1759 — fall of Quebec GEORGE III ( reigned 1760–1820 ] 1763 - Wilkes arrested 1768 – Royal Academy ...
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Addison Anne Bath became become better Bolingbroke Burke called century character Charles Church classical common court death Defoe Duchess Duke eighteenth eighteenth-century England English fashion feeling Fielding finally followed French friends George hand House human important interest Johnson kind King knew lacked Lady later less lived London looked Lord manners Marlborough Mary matter means merely mind moral nature never once painting Parliament party peace perhaps Pitt play political poor Pope Queen reason seems sense simply social society soon sought stand success sure Swift Taylor & Francis things thought tion took Tories true turned virtue Walpole wanted Whigs whole women writers wrote young
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| Otsikko | Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century England |
| Kirjoittaja | Louis Kronenberger |
| Kustantaja | Routledge, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1351510134, 9781351510134 |
| Pituus | 353 sivua |
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