Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Hardback - ***

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

The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world-ephemeral print-but whic...

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

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

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 ...

Provides a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how artistic statements of the er...

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

An important part of eighteenth-century maritime conflict involved the destruction of enemy commerce and the protection of home trade. Privateering...

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

Reducere. In this volume, Caroline Robbins adeptly presents a history of the Commonwealthmen, "a gifted and active minority of the population of the British ...

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...

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

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Nadine Boehm-schnitkerNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 225 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and ...

Reducere. The Complexion of Race Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture Roxann Wheeler "A substantial contribution to the investigati...

The period from 1650 to 1800 was a time of immense change in Scotland, witnessing the Union of 1707, the Jacobite Risings, and the flowering of the...

Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion du...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

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This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the E...

Many more people encountered newspapers, business press products or jobbing print than the glamorous books of the Enlightenment. This book looks at...

In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many e...

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...

Publisher: Bucknell University PressAuthor(s): George E. HaggertyNumber of pages: 186Collection: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850...

The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of the title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading ...

Our Early Modern period runs from 1700 to 1815. England was never at peace. Yet the primary sources show that parties with disputes got on with the...

Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteent...

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

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

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play - from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself - this volume offers new i...

Reducere. White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and p...

This book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the eighteenth century. It draws novel connections between theories of perceptio...

The Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, th...

This collection of essays re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It pr...