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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... party ; but with the predominant motive of wanting to rise by party , or rule by party . Fortunes were at stake rather than principles , and even in the burning heat of faction clever politicians had to be thinking of a graceful way of ...
... party ; but with the predominant motive of wanting to rise by party , or rule by party . Fortunes were at stake rather than principles , and even in the burning heat of faction clever politicians had to be thinking of a graceful way of ...
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... party in office they could take greater liberties . But it was the administration itself , in which Harley and Bolingbroke worked for a while in concert and much longer in conflict , that gave the Jacobite cause its real purchase . As ...
... party in office they could take greater liberties . But it was the administration itself , in which Harley and Bolingbroke worked for a while in concert and much longer in conflict , that gave the Jacobite cause its real purchase . As ...
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... party . When a French spy stabbed Harley and so made a popular martyr of him , Bolingbroke was furious that it was not he who had been stabbed ; and when Harley was created an earl and Bolingbroke only a viscount , the sense of injury ...
... party . When a French spy stabbed Harley and so made a popular martyr of him , Bolingbroke was furious that it was not he who had been stabbed ; and when Harley was created an earl and Bolingbroke only a viscount , the sense of injury ...
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... parties , or of witty people providing the court with the glitter of the salon . Instead we encounter a stuffy hostess who for the most part was never troubled with guests . Anne lacked the mondain temperament ; her enjoyments were ...
... parties , or of witty people providing the court with the glitter of the salon . Instead we encounter a stuffy hostess who for the most part was never troubled with guests . Anne lacked the mondain temperament ; her enjoyments were ...
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... party militantly , though rather ill than well . If she had helped the Duke to rise , even more she had helped him ... parties had kotowed while they must ; but only between her and Godolphin had there ever been real amity , and the two ...
... party militantly , though rather ill than well . If she had helped the Duke to rise , even more she had helped him ... parties had kotowed while they must ; but only between her and Godolphin had there ever been real amity , and the two ...
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