Author: Matthew McCormack

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780719070549

In Georgian England, independence was associated with manly virtue and physical vigour. Fundamentally, the political world was thought to consist of "independent men" exercising their consciences and standing up for the general good. As such, Georgians thought about political action and masculine virtue very differently to the ways in which we do today.