The Jewish Eighteenth Century: A European Biography, 1700-1750, Paperback - Shmuel Feiner

The eighteenth century was the Jews' first modern century. The deep changes that took place during its course shaped the following generations, and...

Reducere. At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding domi...

The first book to evoke the fantasy world of turquerie in all its diversity and richness in eighteenth-century Europe.

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...

Reducere. God's accomplishments through George Whitefield are to this day virtually unparalleled. In an era when many ministers were timid and apologetic in ...

An Lasair (The Flame) is a colorful new anthology of over sixty poems from one of the most dynamic periods of Gaelic literature.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought gives a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone worl...

This is the only edition of these four plays, which are otherwise unavailable, and introduces readers to some of the earliest published women drama...

Reducere. The common seaman and the pirate in the age of sail are romantic historical figures who occupy a special place in the popular culture of the modern...

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...

The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to ...

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

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

Beginning with a survey of the recurrent topics in utopian writing - power structures in the state, money, food, sex, the role of women, birth, edu...

This book offers the first full-length study of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its 'place' - in multiple ways - in literary histor...

The mesmerising story of the eighteenth-century financier of genius who rose from humble Scottish origins to control of the purse-strings of the mo...

DescriptionThe journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eigh...

Presents an anthology of Irish American poetry. This book collects the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poe...

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...

This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the abilit...

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

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

Reducere. Escaping on the Danube River is their only hope for survival.Europe, 1939: Hanne is an adolescent boy, born into a wealthy family from Belgrade. Re...

Reducere. For many queer Jews, Jewish tradition seems like a rich tapestry which at best ignores them and at worst rejects them entirely. In reality, queerne...

Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel's most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to studen...

Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Lucas HaasisNumber of pages: 600Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 240 x 48Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. The book "" The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg; An Account of His Life & Times, & of His Craft, has been considered important throug...

Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men's clothing--from actresse...

In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in this volume interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Contributors p...

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the impo...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Philip KellewayIllustration(s): 110 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dim...

Publisher: British Museum PressIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, black and white; 245 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 20...

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