Kings and desperate menTransaction Publishers, 1.11.2009 - 323 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. |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 74
... House of Hanover Aristocrats, with a Portrait of One of Them Shopkeepers The Poor The Arts The Artists Provincial Sketches Country Matters The Country Gentleman Oxford and Cambridge Bath The Wesleyan Movement xxi 16 25 42 6O 89 98 108 ...
... House of Hanover; the Tories for peace, war, dissent, and the House of Hanover; the Tories for peace, orthodoxy, and, in some quarters, the Pretender.” His treatment orthodoxy, and, in some quarters, the Pretender.” His treatment of ...
... houses, but by following our nose the parks of historic country houses, but by following our nose down the High Street of an eighteenth-century village.” As for down the High Street of an eighteenth-century village.” As for life outside ...
... house where “passing from Fox to Pitt ... is like leaving a lighted house where there was companionship and dancing and supper, to walk home there was companionship and dancing and supper, to walk home alone through streets solemn with ...
... House of Hanover; 2 the Tories for peace, orthodoxy, and, in some quarters, the Pretender: beyond that one cannot safely distinguish them. But within that orbit enmity seethed and spat; and vast though it was, the war became at times ...
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16 | |
Two or Three Characters | 25 |
Walpole and the House of Hanover | 42 |
Arisocrats with a Portrait of One of Them | 60 |
Shopkeepers | 89 |
The Poor | 98 |
The Arts | 108 |
Bath | 183 |
The Wesleyan Movement | 189 |
Empire and Revolution | 203 |
Kings and Counsellors | 215 |
The Great World | 247 |
The World Below | 263 |
The World Within | 273 |
The Bully and the Fop | 309 |
The Artist | 131 |
Country Matters | 161 |
The Country Gentleman | 168 |
Oxford and Cambridge | 175 |
READING LIST | 321 |
INDEX | i |
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