Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandRoutledge, 5.7.2017 - 353 sivua The 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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... court in France , that the long drama that agitated the seventeenth century plays itself out . On the score of blood , the Pretender - as the legitimate son of James II – should have possessed the throne . Even there , however , his ...
... court in France , that the long drama that agitated the seventeenth century plays itself out . On the score of blood , the Pretender - as the legitimate son of James II – should have possessed the throne . Even there , however , his ...
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... die . There is another tale , however , that long ago one of them had come to England to court her , and returned to Hanover without doing so . 5 The Electress Sophia , George's mother , had died 14 ] [ KINGS & DESPERATE MEN )
... die . There is another tale , however , that long ago one of them had come to England to court her , and returned to Hanover without doing so . 5 The Electress Sophia , George's mother , had died 14 ] [ KINGS & DESPERATE MEN )
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... court . But not long afterwards the man he had hoped to make king of England brusquely got rid of him . a a CHAPTER II DETAILS OF THE PLOT > QUEEN ANNE WAS. 5 The Electress Sophia , George's mother , had died two months before . lean on ...
... court . But not long afterwards the man he had hoped to make king of England brusquely got rid of him . a a CHAPTER II DETAILS OF THE PLOT > QUEEN ANNE WAS. 5 The Electress Sophia , George's mother , had died two months before . lean on ...
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... court was a political court : not a trace of social splendour ever inhabited it . We do not read of brilliant formal entertainments , or of jolly , titles - be - damned picnics and parties , or of witty people providing the court with ...
... court was a political court : not a trace of social splendour ever inhabited it . We do not read of brilliant formal entertainments , or of jolly , titles - be - damned picnics and parties , or of witty people providing the court with ...
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... court lacked in tone it made up for in conscience . All this would have made a figurehead only seem meddlesome and laughable . But when Anne came to the throne the English sovereign was not a figurehead , which explains why her watchful ...
... court lacked in tone it made up for in conscience . All this would have made a figurehead only seem meddlesome and laughable . But when Anne came to the throne the English sovereign was not a figurehead , which explains why her watchful ...
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