A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846

A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846
ISBN-10
0199218919
ISBN-13
9780199218912
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
784
Language
English
Published
2008-06-19
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Boyd Hilton

Description

Boyd Hilton examines the changes in politics and society in the years 1783-1846, showing how the raffish and rakish style of eighteenth-century society, having reached a peak in the Regency, then succumbed to the new norms of respectability popularly known as 'Victorianism'.

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