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Languages : en
Pages : 98
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The Spirit of Despotism ... [By Vicesimus Knox.] Fifth Edition
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Pages : 98
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The Spirit of Despotism
Author: John Barrell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019151568X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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How was the social and cultural life of Britain affected by the fear that the French Revolution would spread across the channel? In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Activities and spaces which had previously been regarded as 'outside' politics suddenly no longer seemed to be so, and the fear of revolution produced a culture of surveillance and suspicion which penetrated every aspect of private life. Drawing on an unusually wide range of sources, including novels, poems, plays, newspapers, debates in parliament, trials, political pamphlets, and caricatures, The Spirit of Despotism focuses on a number of examples of such invasions of privacy. It shows how the culture of suspicion affected how people spoke and behaved in London coffee-houses; how it influenced attitudes to the king's behaviour in private, especially during his summer holidays in Weymouth; how it infiltrated the country cottage, previously idealized as a protected haven of peace and retirement from political life; and how it influenced the fashion of the period, so that even the way people chose to style their hair came to be seen as a political issue.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019151568X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
How was the social and cultural life of Britain affected by the fear that the French Revolution would spread across the channel? In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Activities and spaces which had previously been regarded as 'outside' politics suddenly no longer seemed to be so, and the fear of revolution produced a culture of surveillance and suspicion which penetrated every aspect of private life. Drawing on an unusually wide range of sources, including novels, poems, plays, newspapers, debates in parliament, trials, political pamphlets, and caricatures, The Spirit of Despotism focuses on a number of examples of such invasions of privacy. It shows how the culture of suspicion affected how people spoke and behaved in London coffee-houses; how it influenced attitudes to the king's behaviour in private, especially during his summer holidays in Weymouth; how it infiltrated the country cottage, previously idealized as a protected haven of peace and retirement from political life; and how it influenced the fashion of the period, so that even the way people chose to style their hair came to be seen as a political issue.
Notes and Queries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Languages : en
Pages : 662
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A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Rev. John Gill, D.D.
Author: John Rippon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385603706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385603706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Biographical Treasury. Fifth Edition, with a Supplement
Author: Samuel MAUNDER
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Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Pages : 928
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Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Pages : 676
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Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, Etc., Chiefly Political and Controversial
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Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Pages : 566
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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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