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Debating England's Aristocracy in the 1790s: Pamphlets, Polemics and Political Ideas

Debating England's Aristocracy in the 1790s: Pamphlets, Polemics and Political Ideas

Goodrich, Amanda

Paperback

Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New, Book 44

PhilosophyAnthropologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1843836475
ISBN13: 9781843836476
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Jul 21 2011
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Survey of the representation of England's aristocracy in a turbulent time, as its role and function were bitterly debated between radicals and loyalists.

The 1790s saw a lively French Revolution Debate in England, with much space and intellectual energy, in classic texts by men such as Burke and Paine, and ensuing pamphlet literature, devoted characterisations and representationsof the aristocracy; yet this is the first full-scale survey of the subject. Dr Goodrich takes a fresh approach to the topic, illustrating the complexities of the bitter battle fought out in such texts between radicals and loyalists, and highlighting the persistent viciousness and vitriol of a radical anti-aristocratic rhetoric. However, she demonstrates that the loyalist response contained the more innovative campaign, bringing out in particular the development of a commercial loyalism which promoted a new model of society with a modern aristocracy and an open elite; what emerges are English defences of aristocracy which are not simply reducible to ideas of an ancien régimeor a Gothic institution.

Amanda Goodrich is a lecturer in the history department of the Open University.

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