Decency and Disorder
The Age of Cant 1789-1837
Published on 20. March 2014
544 pages
978-0-571-31720-2 (ISBN)
Description
Brilliant young historian Ben Wilson explores a time when licentious Britain tried to straighten out its moral code, ridding itself of its boisterous pastimes, plain-speaking and drunkenness - raising uncomfortable but fascinating parallels with our own age. Decency and Disorder is about the generation who grew up during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, and some of its most exciting figures.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
6,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-31720-2 (9780571317202)
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04/2008
Faber & Faber
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Person
Ben Wilson was born in 1980 and studied history at Pembroke College, Cambridge as an undergraduate and graduate.
The Observer said of him on the publication of his first book, THE LAUGHTER OF TRIUMPH: William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press: "Ben Wilson may only be 25, but he is already an exceptional talent."
The Observer said of him on the publication of his first book, THE LAUGHTER OF TRIUMPH: William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press: "Ben Wilson may only be 25, but he is already an exceptional talent."
Content
- Intro
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Untaught Feelings
- PART I: HYPOCHONDRIA 1789-1815
- Introduction to Part I: Some New World
- 1: Sinking, Sinking, Sinking
- 2: Drunk on Liberty
- 3: Resolute Debauches
- 4: Reforming Saints
- 5: Too Strong for Law
- 6: The Glories of the Great
- 7: The Theatre of War
- PART II: THE ARTS OF PEACE 1815-21
- Introduction to Part II: Rich and Invincible
- 8: Injudicious Kindness
- 9: Academies of Vice
- 10: Slumming It with Tom and Jerry
- PART III: RICH AND RESPECTABLE 1821-37
- Introduction to Part III: Bubbles Light as Air
- 11: Byroned
- 12: Progress
- 13: Merry England
- 14: No Cant
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- Author biography
- Copyright
