Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders / / Don Herzog.

Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to the French Revolution. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders ushers the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Deftly weaving...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1998
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (560 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ENLIGHTENMENT
  • Introduction
  • ONE. A CONSERVATIVE INHERITANCE
  • TWO. OF COFFEEHOUSES AND SCHOOLMASTERS
  • THREE. POISON AND ANTIDOTE
  • FOUR. THE POLITICS OF REASON
  • CONTEMPT
  • Introduction
  • FIVE. THE POLITICS OF THE EMOTIONS
  • SIX. A GUIDE TO THE MENAGERIE: WOMEN AND WORKERS
  • SEVEN. A GUIDE TO THE MENAGERIE: BLACKS AND JEWS
  • EIGHT. SELF AND OTHER
  • NINE. FACES IN THE MIRROR
  • STANDING
  • Introduction
  • TEN. WOLLSTONECRAFT'S HAIR
  • ELEVEN. THE TROUBLE WITH HAIRDRESSERS
  • TWELVE. THE FATE OF A TROPE
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR