Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871
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- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2020
Summary
From America’s fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life.
HOLY MADNESS probes into the psyche that was responsible for so many of the founding events of our modern world, and into the instincts that inspired its most generous and most murderous impulses. It explains how the Enlightenment dislodged Christianity from its central position in the life of European societies an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474615211 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147461521X |
| Author: | Adam Zamoyski |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 640g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 44mm |
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A benchmark that will revise our reading of this vivid period: that between the onset of the two Industrial Revolutions, between Blake and Balzac, which saw the birth and rise, not just of nationalism, but of internationalism - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
An ambitious and in many ways brilliant book - DAILY TELEGRAPHAdam Zamoyski’s dashing account of the romantic movement, HOLY MADNESS, is bold narrative history at its most imaginative - OBSERVERHOLY MADNESS is deceptive, a scholarly work written so attractively that it is easy to miss the deep themes which bring unity and purpose to the book - LITERARY REVIEWZamoyski’s main narrative is a riveting tale of the standard bearers of nationalism from Jefferson to Garibaldi and from the American War of Independence to the Paris Commune of 1871. He achieves striking effects both through antinomy and a quasi-cinematic montage…a page-turner - GLASGOW HERALDAmbitious, stimulating and disturbing….the parade of heroism and folly he presents makes a riveting spectacle - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHSplendidly descriptive, full of music and colour…both charming and learned - THE TIMESAbout The Author
Adam Zamoyski
Adam Zamoyski was born in New York of Polish parents but has lived most of his life in England. He was educated at Downside and Queen’s College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of the Royal Society of Arts, and of the Royal Society of Literature and has written numerous highly acclaimed historical works.
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