The British monarchy and the French Revolution
By: Marilyn Morris.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.; Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- French influences.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-222) and index.