Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850Arthur Burns, Joanna Innes Cambridge University Press, 2003 M11 13 - 346 páginas This book takes a look at the 'age of reform', from 1780 when reform became a common object of aspiration, to the 1830s - the era of the 'Reform Ministry' and of the Great Reform Act of 1832 - and beyond, when such aspirations were realized more frequently. It pays close attention to what contemporaries termed 'reform', identifying two strands, institutional and moral, which interacted in complex ways. Particular reforming initiatives singled out for attention include those targeting parliament, government, the law, the Church, medicine, slavery, regimens of self-care, opera, theatre, and art institutions, while later chapters situate British reform in its imperial and European contexts. An extended introduction provides a point of entry to the history and historiography of the period. The book will therefore stimulate fresh thinking about this formative period of British history. |
Contenido
1 Introduction | 1 |
the fortunes of a word | 71 |
conceptualizing reform c 17901832 | 98 |
the concept and practice of law reform c 17801830 | 114 |
5 English church reform revisited 17801840 | 136 |
6 Medicine in the age of reform | 163 |
7 British antislavery reassessed | 182 |
rethinking gender and domesticityin the age of reform | 200 |
opera and elite culture 17801860 | 220 |
10 Reform on the London stage | 238 |
national art institutions in the age of reform | 254 |
12 Irish reform between the 1798 Rebellion and the Great Famine | 271 |
the 1832 Reform Act revisited | 295 |
comparing Britain and continental Europe | 312 |
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