Description
The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted during the earlier Regency period (1811-1820) when the profligate Prince of Wales--the future king George IV--succeeded his father. Around the Prince Regent surged a society of contrasts: evangelicalism and hedonism, elegance and brutality, exuberance and despair. Capturing the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of artists--the Shelleys, Austen, Keats, Byron, Turner--scientists and inventors--Stevenson, Davy, Faraday--and a cast of dissident journalists, military leaders, and fashionistas, Robert Morrison captivatingly illuminates the ways this period shaped the modern world.
Author: Robert Morrison
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/07/2020
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780393358247
ISBN10: 0393358240
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Great Britain | Georgian Era (1714-1837)
- History | Social History
- History | Modern | 19th Century