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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... merely decorative or picturesque : it attempts a big canvas , deals seriously with human ideas and emotions , and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible . Perhaps the book's character can best be summed up as concrete ...
... merely decorative or picturesque : it attempts a big canvas , deals seriously with human ideas and emotions , and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible . Perhaps the book's character can best be summed up as concrete ...
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... mere description or recounting . In this endeavor , Kronenberger succeeds admirably . One is tempted to say that he has provided a portrait of the century with all the richness of a Rembrandt . In the same way a Rembrandt portrait seeks ...
... mere description or recounting . In this endeavor , Kronenberger succeeds admirably . One is tempted to say that he has provided a portrait of the century with all the richness of a Rembrandt . In the same way a Rembrandt portrait seeks ...
Sivu xxi
... merely decorative or picturesque : it attempts a big canvas , deals seriously with human ideas and emotions , and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible . Perhaps the book's character can be best summed up as concrete ...
... merely decorative or picturesque : it attempts a big canvas , deals seriously with human ideas and emotions , and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible . Perhaps the book's character can be best summed up as concrete ...
Sivu 4
... merely between two hostile parties ; they were also between the future and the past . The War of the Spanish Succession , which began in 1702 , the year Anne came to the throne , resulted from ambitions of Louis XIV that threatened the ...
... merely between two hostile parties ; they were also between the future and the past . The War of the Spanish Succession , which began in 1702 , the year Anne came to the throne , resulted from ambitions of Louis XIV that threatened the ...
Sivu 8
... merely + stripped , in other words , of her European ambitions. 1 Harley later became Earl of Oxford , and the future Viscount Bolingbroke was at this time still plain Henry St John , but for convenience ' sake I am referring to them ...
... merely + stripped , in other words , of her European ambitions. 1 Harley later became Earl of Oxford , and the future Viscount Bolingbroke was at this time still plain Henry St John , but for convenience ' sake I am referring to them ...
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