Clubbable Man. Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Paperback - Cedric D. Reverand II

A celebratory volume that gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociabi...

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unr...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

This work is Volume 1 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

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Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Keridiana W ChezNumber of pages: 212Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 236 x 158 x 20Cover type: Ha...

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Reducere. This is the first volume in any language that collects Hannah Arendt's remarkable series of essays and notes on literary figures and cultural quest...

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This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

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Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

Publisher: Guernica Editions, CanadaAuthor(s): Ewan WhyteNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 15Cover type: Paperback ...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 15...

Using analytical tools from a wide spectrum of disciplines, this edited collection analyzes the role of the body in contemporary Japanese society, ...

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

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Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryTravel EssaysRichard Tillinghast, a celebrated American poet and critic, lived for a year in Ireland in the ...

Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment, tracing the displacement of colonial questions onto two ...

Reducere. Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, humanity is an elusive category in ...

John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences per...

Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of impr...

In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions, this volume brings together establishe...

Reducere. In Another Way of Seeing, Peter Gabel argues that our most fundamental spiritual need as human beings is the desire for authentic mutual recognitio...

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London explores Giardini's influence on British musical life through his m...

Reducere. DescriptionThe French Traveler -- Letters to "Ch re Madame" Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century Canada The First English Tra...

DescriptionWhen the early Christian author Tertullian asked what Jerusalem has to do with Athens, he could not have anticipated the intellectual, c...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Beth a. Haller Ph. D.Towson University journalism professor Beth A. Haller's 20 years of research into disability and mass ...

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The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twe...

Nico Israel argues that spirals illuminate the torsions of history and geopolitics within modernity. Taking the form of the spiral not only as his ...

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Delving into the interaction between satire and more serious forms of literature, Shane Herron overturns long-standing assumptions around genre and...

DescriptionThis book is a multi-faceted exploration and critique of the human condition as it is presently manifested. It addresses science and phi...

Susan Whyman's latest book tells the story of William Hutton, a self-taught workman who rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution in the ...

Reducere. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now...

The first in a two-part volume offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the eighteenth century....

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's selfPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Vivian GornickNumber of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Debbie L. HumphriesForeword by: Diane RandallThe Quaker tradition at its best is a practice-based religious path that embod...

DescriptionA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written...

Through studies of the literature of Antoine Francois Prevost, Claude Crebillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Francoise de Graffigny among others, Rutle...

DescriptionNovel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century ...

Part Two of FourSmall Format: 6" x 9"The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature: From the M...

Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of...