Lecture 1 The eighteenth century an introduction Class Thomas Gainsborough Mr and Mrs Andrews c1750 aristocracy landed gentry and an aspirant middle class a culture of deference ID: 703254
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Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Lecture 1: The eighteenth
century: an introductionSlide2
Class: Thomas Gainsborough, ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’, c.1750
aristocracy, landed gentry and an aspirant middle class - a culture of deference?Slide3
Sociability: ‘a polite and commercial people,’ and the ‘urban renaissance’Slide4
Enlightenment and empireJoseph Wright of Derby, ‘A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery,’ 1766Slide5
Liberty and corruptionWilliam Hogarth, ‘John Wilkes,’ 1763
1688 ‘Glorious Revolution’ established the principle of a constitutional monarchy
= ‘balanced constitution’ of monarch, lords and commons
Challenge to the regime
1688-1745 –
Jacobites
From the 1760s – reformers and radicals
Whigs and Tories were the main political parties, though the Whigs dominated government throughout the century
‘liberty’ versus ‘corruption’ were the key wordsSlide6
Crime and the underworldWilliam Hogarth, ‘The Idle Prentice executed at Tyburn,’ 1747Slide7
William Hogarth (1697-1764)Self-portrait, ‘The painter and his pug,’ 1745Slide8
Key theme
According to Hogarth, the fa
çade of a ‘polite and commercial people’ hid the reality of luxury and corruption in both eighteenth-century society and politics.Slide9
‘The Rake taking possession of his estate’, plate 1 of William Hogarth,‘The Rake’s Progress’ (1734)
http://www.soane.org/collections_legacy/the_soane_hogarths/rakes_progress/Slide10
‘The orgy’, plate 3Slide11
plate 6, ‘The Rake at the Gaming House’Slide12
plate 7, ‘The Rake in Prison’ Slide13
plate 8, ‘The Rake in Bedlam’ Slide14
William Hogarth, ‘An election entertainment’ from ‘The Election’ (1754)Slide15
‘Chairing the Member’ from ‘The Election’ (1754)Slide16
William Hogarth, ‘Gin Lane’ and ‘Beer Street’, 1751Slide17
William Hogarth, ‘Gin Lane,’ 1751Slide18
William Hogarth, ‘Beer Street,’ 1751