Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern-Fast Shipping

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Title: Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern

Author: Robert Morrison

ISBN: 9780393358247

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2020

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

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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.