Rural Rides - Couverture souple

Cobbett, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1596055774 ISBN 13 : 9781596055773

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2013

Synopsis

Upon beholding the masses of buildings, at Oxford, devoted to what they call "learning," I could not help reflecting on the drones that they contain and the wasps they send forth! -from "Burghclere (Hants), Sunday, 18 Nov." Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate activist, and future Member of Parliament-Will Cobbett's unique eye offers us a perspective on 19th-century England we won't find anywhere else. Cobbett roamed Southern England on horseback in the years between 1821 and 1832, gathering his "economical and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of" that charming part of the world, one in the throes of massive change in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Volume 1 covers the years 1821 to 1825 and features cutting observations on the smokelike fogs of London, the price of lodgings in Oxford, the meanness of landlords, and the pleasures of watching "very pretty girls" in their Sunday best going to church. This is an extraordinary record of a world long gone, one very little documented when it existed, by a voice who was far ahead of his time. British journalist and radical WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835) is also the author of The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in Parliament (1830).

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is not often that the fame of a political writer outlives the age in which he writes. Men sinterests are so closely interwoven with the events of their own day, that few have either time or inclination to devote to those of a bygone generation. With respect however, to the influence which Cobbett wielded in the political world for nearly half a century, it has not probably been overstated that the student of politics must be a student of Cobbettj if he would know the beginnings out of which existing tendencies have been developed and that the statesman who does not know the Register forfeits a master clue to the passions of his countrymen. One of Cobbett sworks, Rural Rides, although interspersed with politics, deals largely with questions of social and economical importance; and these questions are of scarcely less moment to us, in this year of grace, than they were to Cobbett sreaders two generations ago. Every one at all acquainted with Cobbett swritings, must have observed his passionate sympathy with all rural occupations.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1596055774
• ISBN 13: 9781596055773
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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