Francophilia in English Society

This book examines the impact of French society on English culture in the second half of the eighteenth century. In an age when many historians suggest the inexorable rise of the middle classes was being driven forward by industrialization, the English aristocracy stood apart from the trend towards commercial respectability, and revelled in all that was best in cosmopolitan fashion and ideas. Welcoming the French Revolution as a re-enactment of 1688, they watched aghast as their world descended into the Terror, and the onslaught of Bonaparte.

Author: R. Eagles
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/22/2000
Pages: 229
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780333764848

About the Author
ROBIN EAGLES is Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament, UK. He has been a contributor to L. Brockliss and D. Eastwood, (eds), A Union of Multiple Identities: the British Isles 1750-1850, and the New Dictionary of National Biography.

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