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

by Robert Morrison

Book Overview

The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811-1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales--the future king George IV--replaced his insane father, George III, as Britain's ruler.

Around the regent surged a society steeped in contrasts: evangelicalism and hedonism, elegance and brutality, exuberance and despair. The arts flourished at this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393249050
• ISBN13: 9780393249057
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"