The Age of Virtue

The Age of Virtue British Culture from the Restoration to Romanticism

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Publisher's Synopsis

In the 18th century, says Morse (English and American studies, U. of Sussex) virtue was not shorthand for some vacuous establishment values, but stood at the heart of a series of confrontations with institutionalized political, patriarchal, and imperial authority. He describes how it was the battle cry of challenges to power and hierarchy, but once

Book information

ISBN: 9780312223533
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 820.9353
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 330
Weight: 753g
Height: 224mm
Width: 147mm
Spine width: 27mm