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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The early eighteenth century was a time when politics could not be combed out of people's lives , and Kronenberger does not attempt to do so . Indeed , he revels in the politics of the age as revealing of the personality of both ...
The early eighteenth century was a time when politics could not be combed out of people's lives , and Kronenberger does not attempt to do so . Indeed , he revels in the politics of the age as revealing of the personality of both ...
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The lives of London's poor were blighted by violent crime and a draconian penal system , filth , disease , hopelessness , and , in an attempt to escape it all , the empty promise and destructive influence of gin .
The lives of London's poor were blighted by violent crime and a draconian penal system , filth , disease , hopelessness , and , in an attempt to escape it all , the empty promise and destructive influence of gin .
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Kronenberger clearly admires Hogarth's sincere rendering of life as lived , his vivid portrayals , and his devotion to the irrepressible tides of human life . He admires methods that are akin to his own . But Kronenberger is also aware ...
Kronenberger clearly admires Hogarth's sincere rendering of life as lived , his vivid portrayals , and his devotion to the irrepressible tides of human life . He admires methods that are akin to his own . But Kronenberger is also aware ...
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... Robert Walpole , " a great spoke in the Philistine wheel and a heavy stone in the capitalist edifice " ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , “ her personality , though it had its inconveniences while she lived , is exactly the sort that is ...
... Robert Walpole , " a great spoke in the Philistine wheel and a heavy stone in the capitalist edifice " ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , “ her personality , though it had its inconveniences while she lived , is exactly the sort that is ...
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It was an era when politics could not be combed out of people's lives ; every trifle became a badge of party , defiantly worn . ... wrote on political subjects , lived by political alliances , and frequently held political office .
It was an era when politics could not be combed out of people's lives ; every trifle became a badge of party , defiantly worn . ... wrote on political subjects , lived by political alliances , and frequently held political office .
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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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