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

    Written by Robert Morrison

    Narrated by Chris MacDonnell

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    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 time with a showcase of extraordinary writers and painters such as Jane Austen, Lord Byron, the Shelleys, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner. Science burgeoned during this decade, too, giving us the steam locomotive and the blueprint for the modern computer.

    Yet the dark side of the era was visible in poverty, slavery, pornography, opium, and the gothic imaginings that birthed the novel Frankenstein. With the British military in foreign lands, fighting the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the War of 1812 in the United States, the desire for empire and an expanding colonial enterprise gained unstoppable momentum. Exploring these crosscurrents, Robert Morrison illuminates the profound ways this period shaped and indelibly marked the modern world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateApr 30, 2019
    ISBN9781684419302
    The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern

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    • 5/5
      Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, Napoleon, J.W. Turner, Shelley, Keats, Beau Brumell,...they're all here!!! Truly a pleasure to listen to, this wonderfully narrated title not only informs you about some of the Regency era's most famous notables, but also keeps you wanting the story to never end. If you're searching for a great conscise history of England's most interesting era...then this title is definitely for you!!

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    • 4/5
      It covers much of the things happening during the Regency. There was a lot going on in that decade. The views on sex, Jane Austen's writing, Byron's life and writing, Mary Shelley and the creation of Frankenstein. Some parts are dry others are very interesting.