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Download or read book John Wilkes written by John Sainsbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wilkes remains one of the most colourful and intriguing characters of eighteenth-century Britain. Born in 1725, the son of a prosperous London distiller, he was given the classical education of a gentleman, before entering politics as a Whig. Finding his party in opposition following the accession of George III in 1760 he took up his pen with sensational effect, and made a career out of excoriating the new administration and promoting the Whig interest. His charismatic style and vicious wit soon ensured that he became a figurehead for the radical cause, earning him many admirers and many enemies. Amongst the latter were the king, and the artist William Hogarth who famously depicted Wilkes as a grinning, squint-eyed, pug-nosed agent of misrule. Whilst Wilkes's political career has been much explored, particularly the period between 1763 and 1774, much less has been written about his remarkable private life. This biography provides a more comprehensive examination of Wilkes throughout his long life than has hitherto been available. Taking a thematic, rather than chronological approach it is divided into six main chapters covering family, ambition, sex, religion, class and money, which allows a much more rounded picture of Wilkes to emerge. In so doing it provides a fascinating insight, not only into one of the most intriguing characters of the Georgian period, but also into wider eighteenth-century British society and its shifting attitudes to morality, politics and gender.
Download or read book John Wilkes written by Arthur H. Cash and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize Finalist: A biography of the wildly colorful eighteenth-century British politician who became “the toast of American revolutionaries” (Booklist). One of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (1726–97) is remembered as the father of the British free press, a defender of civil and political liberties—and a hero to American colonists. Wilkes’s political career was rancorous, involving duels, imprisonments in the Tower of London, and the Massacre of St. George’s Fields, in which seven of his supporters were shot to death by government troops. He was equally famous for his “private” life—as a confessed libertine, a member of the notorious Hellfire Club, and the author of what has been called the dirtiest poem in the English language. This lively biography draws a full portrait of John Wilkes from his childhood days through his heyday as a journalist and agitator, his defiance of government prosecutions for libel and obscenity, his fight against exclusion from Parliament, and his service as lord mayor of London on the eve of the American Revolution. Told here with the force and immediacy of a firsthand newspaper account, Wilkes’s own remarkable story is inseparable from the larger story of modern civil liberties and how they came to fruition. “[Does] justice to Wilkes both as a fiery proponent of individual rights and as . . . a libertine par excellence in an age with no shortage of memorable rakes.” —The New York Times “It is difficult to believe that John Wilkes, a notorious womanizer and scandal-monger, was a genuine hero of civil liberties and political democracy on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 18th century, but hero he was and in this engaging book Arthur Cash gives Wilkes the serious treatment he has long deserved.” —Eric Foner, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History and New York Times–bestselling author of Reconstruction
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 by : John Richetti
Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 written by John Richetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-06 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.
Book Synopsis A classified catalogue of the circulating portion of the Library ... With index of authors and subjects by : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Download or read book A classified catalogue of the circulating portion of the Library ... With index of authors and subjects written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book R.Z written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London by : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Museum Catalogue of printed Books by :
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of a Singularly Curious and Valuable Selection from the Library of a Gentlemen ... by :
Download or read book Catalogue of a Singularly Curious and Valuable Selection from the Library of a Gentlemen ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III by : John Brewer
Download or read book Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III written by John Brewer and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1981-12-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reappraisal of English politics in the first decade of George III's reign. It sets out to explain how party politics changed, and what problems that created for the parliamentary elite. The issues of party, of patriotism as it manifested itself in the elder Pitt's political career, and of the relations between the notions of ministerial responsibility and the powers of the Crown are all used to illuminate the nature of political conflict. Special emphasis is placed on Burke's notions of party. The schisms created by this reconfiguration of party politics, Dr Brewer argues, had effects beyond Westminster. He discusses extra-parliamentary forms of political expression, notably the press, and goes on to show how the career of John Wilkes and the critique of British politics developed by American radicals gave focus to a variety of political discontents, and produced new arguments in favour of parliamentary reform. Throughout his study he emphasises the interplay between popular and parliamentary politics. His work is designed to show that the 'political nation' included many other than the parliamentary classes, and that the political conflicts of the period cannot be properly understood without a full examination of political ideology.
Book Synopsis Lothario's Corpse by : Daniel Gustafson
Download or read book Lothario's Corpse written by Daniel Gustafson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: The long-running Restoration -- Corpsing Lothario -- Debating Dorimant -- Stuarts without end -- Libertines and liberalism.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London, Instituted in the Year 1824 by : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London, Instituted in the Year 1824 written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of a Select Collection of Books and Tracts, in Various Classes of Literature, Including Many Curious and Rare Articles, Relative to Scotland ... Now on Sale ... by John Stevenson by : John Stevenson (Bookseller, of Edinburgh.)
Download or read book Catalogue of a Select Collection of Books and Tracts, in Various Classes of Literature, Including Many Curious and Rare Articles, Relative to Scotland ... Now on Sale ... by John Stevenson written by John Stevenson (Bookseller, of Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London by : Corporation of London. Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London written by Corporation of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A.C written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London by : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London Institude in the Year 1824 by : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London Institude in the Year 1824 written by Guildhall Library (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London instituted in the Year 1824 by : Anonymous
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London instituted in the Year 1824 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
