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. |
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... Pitt The N ew-F ashioned Phaeton Great Subscription Room at Brooks's The Morning Walk Peg Woflington FRONTISPIECE 28 5O 50 70 100 120 142 142 178 186 196 208 226 250 258 276 288 CHRONOLOGY ANNE [reigned 1702-14] 1702 — War of the Spanish.
... Pitt becomes Prime Minister 1784 — death of Johnson 1788 — George III goes mad 17 88 — trial of Warren Hastings opens 1790 — Reflexi'ons on the Revolution in France Introduction to the Transaction Edition Introduction to the Transaction ...
... Pitt, not to mention the kings themselves, but Burke, Fox, and Pitt, not to mention the kings themselves, but along the way he provides the reader with a sweeping account of along the way he provides the reader with a sweeping account ...
... Pitt, Fox, “the most delightful Englishman of his time”; William Pitt, “passing from Fox to Pitt ... is like leaving a lighted house where “passing from Fox to Pitt ... is like leaving a lighted house where there was companionship and ...
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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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