The House of Hanover: England in the 18th Century by Leon Garfield

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

In the House of Hanover Leon Garfield examines the artistic achievement of the 18th century: an age of contradictions and extremes: filth and beauty, poverty and affluence, excessive delicacy and foulest degradation, captured in the lives and works of characters such as Dr Johnson, Swift, Defoe, John Gay, Pope, Hogarth, Addison and above all Handel, who forged the critical culture of the times, combining classical with the popular. Enjoying their freedom, poets, playwrights and satirists attacked the falsity and rank corruption they saw directly above them.

Leon Garfield visited the National Portrait Gallery in London and used it as a narrative framework to explore the cultural and social achievements of the 18th century.

Illustrated with 50 black and white illustrations and 8 pages of full colour.