The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern -- Robert Morrison, Paperback

The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted during the earlier Regency period (1811-1820) when the profligate Prince of Wales--the future king George IV--succeeded his father. Around the Prince Regent surged a society of contrasts: evangelicalism and hedonism, elegance and brutality, exuberance and despair. Capturing the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of artists--the Shelleys, Austen, Keats, Byron, Turner--scientists and inventors--Stevenson, Davy, Faraday--and a cast of dissident journalists, military leaders, and fashionistas, Robert Morrison captivatingly illuminates the ways this period shaped the modern world.

Author: Robert Morrison
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/07/2020
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780393358247