The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830 - Rilegato

Mortimer, Ian

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ISBN 10: 1643138812 ISBN 13: 9781643138817

Casa editrice: Pegasus Books, 2022

Riassunto

<b>A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington.</b><br><br>This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the&#160;sartorial elegance of&#160;Beau Brummell and the poetic license of Lord Byron; Britain&#39;s military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the&#160;threat of revolution and the Peterloo&#160;massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of&#160;<i>Time Traveler&#39;s Guides,&#160;</i>Ian&#160;Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British&#160;history: the Regency, or Georgian England.<br> <br> A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of&#160;the stifling world of&#160;Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic, and political change. And like all periods&#160;in history, it was an age of many contradictions&#8212;where Beethoven&#39;s thundering Fifth&#160;Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen&#160;craft the delicate sensitivities of&#160;<i>Persuasion</i>.<br> <br> Once more, Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank, and wore; where they&#160;shopped and how they&#160;amused themselves; what they believed in, and what they feared. Conveying the sights, sounds, and&#160;smells of the Regency period, this is history&#160;at its most exciting, physical, visceral&#8212;the past not as something to be studied but as&#160;lived experience.

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Informazioni sull?autore

<b>Dr. Ian Mortimer&#160;</b>has been described by the London&#160;<i>Times&#160;</i>as &#34;the most remarkable medieval historian of our time.&#34; He is the author of&#160;<i>The Time Traveler&#39;s Guide to Restoration Britain&#160;</i>and<i>&#160;Outcasts of Time,</i>&#160;both&#160;available from Pegasus Books. He was awarded the Alexander Prize by the Royal Historical Society and is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Please visit his website at&#160;<a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="http://www.ianmortimer.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.ianmortimer.com</a>. He lives in England.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pegasus Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1643138812
• ISBN 13: 9781643138817
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile