Sex Money Personal Character In Eighteenth Century British Politics

Author : Marilyn Morris
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300210477

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Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics by Marilyn Morris Pdf

How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader and more public political arena with the growth of political parties, extra-parliamentary political activities, and a partisan print culture. The public’s preoccupation with the personal character of the ruling elite paralleled a growing interest in the interior lives of individuals in histories, novels, and the theater. Newspaper reports of the royal family intensified in intimacy and its members became moral exemplars—most often, paradoxically, when they misbehaved. Ad hominem attacks on political leaders became commonplace; politicians of all affiliations continued to assess one another’s characters based on their success and daring with women and money. And newly popular human-interest journalism promoted the illusion that the personal characters of public figures could be read by appearances.

Author : William Tullett
Publisher : Past and Present Book
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198844136

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Smell in Eighteenth-century England by William Tullett Pdf

In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.

Author : Christopher Fletcher,Sean Brady,Rachel E. Moss,Lucy Riall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137585387

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The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe by Christopher Fletcher,Sean Brady,Rachel E. Moss,Lucy Riall Pdf

This handbook aims to challenge ‘gender blindness’ in the historical study of high politics, power, authority and government, by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of current historical research into the relationship between masculinity and political power. Until very recently in historical terms, formal political authority in Europe was normally and ideally held by adult males, with female power being perceived as a recurrent aberration. Yet paradoxically the study of the interactions between masculinity and political culture is still very much in its infancy. This volume seeks to remedy this lacuna by considering the different consequences of the masculinity of power over two millennia of European history. It examines how masculinity and political culture have interacted from ancient Rome and the early medieval Byzantine empire, to twentieth-century Germany and Italy. It considers a broad variety of case studies from early medieval Iceland and late medieval France, to Naples at the time of the French Revolution and Strasbourg after the Franco-Prussian War, with a particular focus on the development of political masculinities in Great Britain between the sixteenth century and the present day.

Author : Daniel Gustafson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482115

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Lothario's Corpse by Daniel Gustafson Pdf

Introduction: The long-running Restoration -- Corpsing Lothario -- Debating Dorimant -- Stuarts without end -- Libertines and liberalism.

Author : Sergei A. Samoilenko,Martijn Icks,Jennifer Keohane,Eric Shiraev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351368322

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Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management by Sergei A. Samoilenko,Martijn Icks,Jennifer Keohane,Eric Shiraev Pdf

In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like symbolic and psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous reputations. People mobilize significant material and psychological resources to defend themselves against such attacks. How does character assassination "work," and when does it not? Why do many targets fall so easily when they are under character attack? How can one prevent attacks and defend against them? The Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management offers the first comprehensive examination of character assassination. Moving beyond studying corporate reputation management and how public figures enact and maintain their reputation, this lively volume offers a framework and cases to help understand, critically analyze, and effectively defend against such attacks. Written by an international and interdisciplinary team of experts, the book begins with a theoretical introduction and extensive description of the "five pillars" of character assassination: (1) the attacker, (2) the target, (3) the media, (4) the public, and (5) the context. The remaining chapters present engaging case studies suitable for class discussion. These include: Roman emperors; Reformation propaganda; the Founding Fathers; defamation in US politics; women politicians; autocratic regimes; European leaders; celebrities; nations; Internet campaigns. This handbook will prove invaluable to undergraduate and postgraduate students in communication, political science, history, sociology, and psychology departments. It will also help researchers become independent, critical, and informed thinkers capable of avoiding the pressure and manipulations of the media.

Author : Mark Knights
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192516053

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Trust and Distrust by Mark Knights Pdf

Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and social scientists. Mark Knights paints a picture of the interaction of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office, showing how these stories were intertwined and related. Linking corruption in office to the domestic and imperial state has not been attempted before, and Knights does this by drawing on extensive interdisciplinary sources relating to the East India Company as well as other colonial officials in the Atlantic World and elsewhere in Britain's emerging empire. Both 'corruption' and 'office' were concepts that were in evolution during the period 1600-1850 and underwent very significant but protracted change which this study charts and seeks to explain. The book makes innovative use of the concept of trust, which helped to shape office in ways that underlined principles of selflessness, disinterestedness, integrity, and accountability in officials.

Author : Nora Nachumi,Kristina Straub
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532669

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Making Stars by Nora Nachumi,Kristina Straub Pdf

In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if not more, for their everyday, lived experience than for their status or actions. At the same time, celebrity emerged as public fascination for the private lives of publicly visible individuals. Biography and celebrity are mutually constitutive, but in complex and varied ways that this volume unpacks. Contributors to this volume present us a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that eighteenth-century celebrity culture in Britain was more pervasive, diverse and, in many ways, more egalitarian, than previously supposed.

Author : Anna Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400849543

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Scandal by Anna Clark Pdf

Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? In 1820, George IV's "royal gambols" with his mistresses endangered the Old Oak of the constitution. When he tried to divorce Queen Caroline for adultery, the resulting scandal enabled activists to overcome state censorship and revitalize reform. Looking at six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820, this book demonstrates that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. In vibrant prose woven with vivid character sketches and illustrations, Anna Clark explains that activists used these stories to illustrate constitutional issues concerning the Crown, Parliament, and public opinion. Clark argues that sex scandals grew out of the tension between aristocratic patronage and efficiency in government. For instance, in 1809 Mary Ann Clarke testified that she took bribes to persuade her royal lover, the army's commander-in-chief, to promote officers, buy government offices, and sway votes. Could women overcome scandals to participate in politics? This book also explains the real reason why the glamorous Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, became so controversial for campaigning in a 1784 election. Sex scandal also discredited Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the first feminists, after her death. Why do some scandals change politics while others fizzle? Edmund Burke tried to stir up scandal about the British empire in India, but his lurid, sexual language led many to think he was insane. A unique blend of the history of sexuality and women's history with political and constitutional history, Scandal opens a revealing new window onto some of the greatest sex scandals of the past. In doing so, it allows us to more fully appreciate the sometimes shocking ways democracy has become what it is today.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ireland
ISBN : WISC:89093909778

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Eighteenth-century Ireland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000093087561

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Journal for the Study of British Cultures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029534109

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307388445

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter Pdf

This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?, ” The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States.

Author : Ben Griffin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107015074

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The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain by Ben Griffin Pdf

This groundbreaking history challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24504225558

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Humboldt library of science. no. 148 | pt. 1, 1892 by Anonim Pdf