Title The British monarchy and the French Revolution / Marilyn Morris

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998] ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: The Meaning of Monarchy -- 1. History and Legitimacy -- 2. The Burke-Paine Controversy -- 3. Recasting the Ideological Foundations of the British Monarchy -- 4. The Republican Tradition, the Reform Movement, and the Monarchy -- 5. Religious Sanctity -- 6. Legal Sanctity -- 7. Court Culture, Royalist Ritual, and Popular Loyalism -- 8. The Public Image of George III -- Conclusion: The Metaphor Called a Crown Summary What prevented revolution in Britain during the French revolutionary era? How did George III's monarchy withstand republican challenges? This book examines the British monarchy - and the values, beliefs, and images attached to it - during the contentious decade of the 1790s. Through a wide-ranging exploration of loyalist and reform propaganda, newspapers, political caricatures, sermons, and records of prosecution for sedition and treason, Marilyn Morris arrives at a new perspective on the forces of social stability in Britain that prevented revolution and preserved the Crown. The monarchy, though tradition-bound, continually had to reinvent itself, Morris contends, and its modern incarnation emerged in the later years of George's reign with a style stressing personality, empathy, and domesticity, and a legitimacy based on the monarchy's embodiment of the nation's history. Morris's analysis of the monarchy's image and its incorporation into political argument during a time of upheaval provides new insight into how different institutions of the state protected and supported one another. Her discussion also places speculation about the imminent demise of the monarchy in the 1990s into perspective Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index Notes Print version record Subject George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 SUBJECT George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 fast Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. swd Burke, Edmund (Politiker). Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings on certain societies in London relative to that event. swd Paine, Thomas. swd Burke, Edmund (Politiker) swd Subject Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Civilization -- French influences Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Monarchy Politics and government Monarchie Französische Revolution Staatslehre Franse Revolutie. Ideologieën. Receptie. Koningschap. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056909 France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051332 Great Britain -- Civilization -- French influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000978 Subject France Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 97016330 ISBN 9780300149036 0300149034

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