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Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815
Robin Eagles
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hardcover. In the second half of the 18th century the English aristocracy stood apart from the trend towards commercial respectability. Welcoming the French Revolution as a re-enactment of 1688, they watched aghast as their world descended into the Terror, and the onslaught of Bonaparte. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 460.
This book examines the impact of French society on English culture in the second half of the eighteenth century. In an age when many historians suggest the inexorable rise of the middle classes was being driven forward by industrialization, the English aristocracy stood apart from the trend towards commercial respectability, and revelled in all that was best in cosmopolitan fashion and ideas. Welcoming the French Revolution as a re-enactment of 1688, they watched aghast as their world descended into the Terror, and the onslaught of Bonaparte.
This book examines the impact of French society on English culture in the second half of the eighteenth century. In an age when many historians suggest the inexorable rise of the middle classes was being driven forward by industrialization, the English aristocracy stood apart from the trend towards commercial respectability, and revelled in all that was best in cosmopolitan fashion and ideas. Welcoming the French Revolution as a re-enactment of 1688, they watched aghast as their world descended into the Terror, and the onslaught of Bonaparte.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
Number of Pages
229
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333764848
SKU
V9780333764848
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About Robin Eagles
ROBIN EAGLES is Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament, UK. He has been a contributor to L. Brockliss and D. Eastwood, (eds), A Union of Multiple Identities: the British Isles 1750-1850, and the New Dictionary of National Biography.
Reviews for Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815
'Eagles's evidence is immaculately marshalled, and tells us a great deal about English Society during the reigns of Georges II and III...His book is scholarly social history at its best.' - The Independent '...challenging...sparkling...Eagles has some fascinating material - about for example, French influences on English playwrights, or the experience of English travellers and expatriates in France.' ... Read more