Hope and Glory

Nov 7, 2024 11:33 AM

Author:Peter Clarke

Hope and Glory

Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare, shaped society and explores such areas as architecture, sport and popular culture. Embracing a century of national experience, Hope and Glory superbly conveys the diverse aspects of three generations who lived through unparalleled change.

Reviews

Roe is an exceptionally shrewd critic of Romanticism - uncannily alert... everything he says is well-turned and reliably clever

—— Andrew Motion , Guardian

Roe provides as complete a portrait as we are likely to get of Hunt’s first 37 years

—— Nicholas Shakespeare , Daily Telegraph

Roe offers a meticulous and thorough account of Hunt’s significance in the literary culture of the Regency era

—— Sunday Telegraph

Roe is a seasoned Romantic scholar who offers an impassioned account of Hunt's 'first life'

—— D J Taylor , Sunday Times

Roe's biography is an absorbing account of English intellectual culture in the early 19th century

—— Evening Standard

Excellent...intriguing reading...Surely [Leigh Hunt] should be back in print for us to judge him now

—— Daily Mail

Roe brings to his work decades of research on the period...[his] volume is free of imprecision and well-informed

—— Independent

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