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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... important to understanding the period in any standard history . Kronenberger has nothing to say of such important movements as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions and little of England outside of London or of the growing British ...
... important to understanding the period in any standard history . Kronenberger has nothing to say of such important movements as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions and little of England outside of London or of the growing British ...
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... importance is as " a great social historian . ' But Kronenberger's portrait transcends Hogarth's in its descriptive powers in that it moves and speaks . Indeed , the book is in some ways more like a pageant or a play , whose vivid ...
... importance is as " a great social historian . ' But Kronenberger's portrait transcends Hogarth's in its descriptive powers in that it moves and speaks . Indeed , the book is in some ways more like a pageant or a play , whose vivid ...
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... in social terms , and much less in æsthetic ones . It deals with certain important men and women , not to provide much in the way of factual biography , but to express their feelings and ideas , their values and tastes . [ xxi Note.
... in social terms , and much less in æsthetic ones . It deals with certain important men and women , not to provide much in the way of factual biography , but to express their feelings and ideas , their values and tastes . [ xxi Note.
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... important person in the kingdom . The Stuarts , like the Bourbons , had excellent memories , and an ambitious man who offended the Queen might discover , long afterwards , that he stood in high disfavour for something he had ages ago ...
... important person in the kingdom . The Stuarts , like the Bourbons , had excellent memories , and an ambitious man who offended the Queen might discover , long afterwards , that he stood in high disfavour for something he had ages ago ...
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