Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth Century Fiction, Paperback - Christine Rees

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...

Reducere. A seafaring story with a twist--the incredible voyage of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold...

Reducere. A seafaring story with a twist -- the incredible voyage of a shipload of disorderly girls and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold...

In September 1726, Mary Toft was found to have given birth to seventeen rabbits in Godalming, Surrey. The case caused a sensation and was reported ...

Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaNumber of pages: 478Collection: Options for Teaching 30Publication date: 2010Cover type: Paperback...

One of England's most respected and influential architects, James Gibbs was born in Scotland, studied in Rome, and left a legacy of design the worl...

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 ...

A consortium of British architects and their patrons rebelled against the early eighteenth century's Baroque excesses and turned instead toward the...

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

DescriptionIntelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara A. Cahill explores two overlapping strands ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

A novel, set in the late eighteenth century, about smuggling off the coast of south-east Kent, EnglandPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Simon G...

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

During the 18th century, there was a great proliferation of poetry published by women. Most of their work has since fallen into obscurity and their...

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

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

The real life Pemberley.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Carolyn & Peter HammondIllustration(s): 56 Illustrations, unspecified; 56 Illustra...

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...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Evelyn S. RawskiNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15Cover type: Paperbac...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 88 colour illusNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 29Cover type:...

William Ellis, who lived and farmed at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire in the first half of the eighteenth century (d. 1759), is an important fig...

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds t...

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

This comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and the emergence of London's embryonic modern criminal justice ...

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...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Danielle BobkerIllustration(s): 32 b/w illus.Number of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Jocelyn (Independent Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) AndersonIllustration(s): 8 colour ...

Reducere. 1. The Unimaginable Zero Summer2. O Resolution! 3. Sleeping Ambassadors Of The Sun 4. Scentless Core (budding) 5. Far From Where Dreams Unfurl6. Sc...

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

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....

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic e...

The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blin...

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

This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, ma...

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

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

This book presents the first comprehensive publication of Lorenz Natter's (1705- 1763) Museum Britannicum, offering full discussion in English and ...

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine ...

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

Take a romp through the long eighteenth-century in this collection of 25 short tales - meet actresses, whores and high-born ladies, politicians, in...

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