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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... never certain of whom to trust – was to be rife with conspiracy and faction . Into those years , moreover - they sound very placid when we call them the age of Anne - were thrust not only an incredible energy , but a cold wit , a ...
... never certain of whom to trust – was to be rife with conspiracy and faction . Into those years , moreover - they sound very placid when we call them the age of Anne - were thrust not only an incredible energy , but a cold wit , a ...
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... never have lost his crown , and that , though lost , his son should regain it . Such people knew better than to say all this in doubtful company , but among themselves they hatched an astonishing number of fireside plots . Thus , owing ...
... never have lost his crown , and that , though lost , his son should regain it . Such people knew better than to say all this in doubtful company , but among themselves they hatched an astonishing number of fireside plots . Thus , owing ...
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... never troubled with guests . Anne lacked the mondain temperament ; her enjoyments were lower middle - class card games , Newmarket , drink . She was pleasure - loving but humourless , gossipy but unsociable . And the man she married was ...
... never troubled with guests . Anne lacked the mondain temperament ; her enjoyments were lower middle - class card games , Newmarket , drink . She was pleasure - loving but humourless , gossipy but unsociable . And the man she married was ...
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... never been possible . Differing with her father over religion , she had deserted him in '88 and never seen him again . Her sister Mary , as Queen , had snubbed and bullied her and died her enemy . Her brother - in - law William , as ...
... never been possible . Differing with her father over religion , she had deserted him in '88 and never seen him again . Her sister Mary , as Queen , had snubbed and bullied her and died her enemy . Her brother - in - law William , as ...
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... never saw each other again . Sarah's had been a long régime , and as a fervent Whig - far more so , indeed , than her husband - she had served her party militantly , though rather ill than well . If she had helped the Duke to rise ...
... never saw each other again . Sarah's had been a long régime , and as a fervent Whig - far more so , indeed , than her husband - she had served her party militantly , though rather ill than well . If she had helped the Duke to rise ...
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