Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815
Description
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.
Keywords
HistoryEuropeModernGreat BritainSocial History
2000Book
Author(s)Robin Eagles
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333764848
LanguageEnglish
