Poisoning the Minds of the Lower OrdersPrinceton University Press, 06.08.2000 - 559 Seiten Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to the French Revolution. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders ushers the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. |
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... so , some of the details quirky , others nauseating : it might help , then , to have a stark outline of the structure of the argument . In deference to tradi- tion , I begin by puzzling through Burke . Less X PREFACE.
Don Herzog. tion , I begin by puzzling through Burke . Less deferentially , I wonder what tradition means , anyway . Sometimes it means self - conscious alle- giance to inherited practices or narrative continuity with the past , which ...
... tion in polite society . What was George to do ? Years before Bergami's appearance on the scene , George already was charging Caroline with sexual infidelities , trying in vain to rid himself of her . A " delicate investigation " in ...
... tion , revealed to Parliament the case against Caroline . Soon the House of Lords considered a special Bill of Pains and Penalties de- signed to abrogate the marriage . So ensued what amounted to a trial , beginning 17 August , with ...
... tion : home owners could display candles in their windows at night , joining the celebration , or risk having their windows broken . Robert Southey , poet laureate and sidekick of Wordsworth and Coleridge , sullenly refused to join one ...
Inhalt
A Conservative Inheritance | 13 |
Of Coffeehouses and Schoolmasters | 50 |
Poison and Antidote | 89 |
The Politics of Reason | 140 |
CONTEMPT | 191 |
The Politics of the Emotions | 202 |
A Guide to the Menagerie Women and Workers | 244 |
A Guide to the Menagerie Blacks and Jews | 283 |
Self and Other | 324 |
Faces in the Mirror | 363 |
STANDING | 403 |
Wollstonecrafts Hair | 414 |
The Trouble with Hairdressers | 455 |
The Fate of a Trope | 505 |
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