Theatres of Feeling. Affect, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage, Hardback - Jean I. Marsden

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

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

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Remco (Radboud University, The Netherlands) EnselIllustration(s): 12 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illus...

Unearthing new discoveries for scholars, practitioners and undergraduates, this book charts the socio-political history of five 'lost' venues and t...

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

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

Contributor(s): Author: Peter McNeilThe term "macaroni" was once as familiar a label as "punk" or "hipster" is today. In this handsomely illustrate...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Gillian JonesIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 62Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 9Co...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Richa (Douglas College, Canada) DworNumber of pages: 208Collection: New Directions in Religion and L...

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

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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...

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment...

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This book demonstrates how the experience of change in the modern period was first registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new ...

featuring theatres and opera houses - and any space for the performing arts - from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australasia, Amazing Thea...

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...

Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial com...

Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fecamp's Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piet...

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

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

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

In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black sk...

Publisher: Free Association BooksAuthor(s): Joyce McDougallNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 1986Dimensions: 150 x 231 x 18Cover type: Paperbac...

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

DescriptionA concise survey of Marsden Hartley's daring innovations in American painting, with reflections on his work by contemporary artistsA def...

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

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

This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts ...

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

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three...

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...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Jean E. JacksonNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 27Cover type: Hardb...

Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicAuthor(s): Peter (University of Kent, UK) GoodNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 22Cov...

Transylvania in the eighteenth century. Aspects of regional identity - Laura Stanciu, Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu

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

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

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

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

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

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