Weighing Fire. European Lives in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Science, New ed, Hardback - Michael Rand Hoare

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...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

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

Publisher: SPCK PublishingNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 176 x 246 x 15Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Steph BryantRedescoper...

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers ...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Publisher: New Island BooksAuthor(s): Michael VineyNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 222 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

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

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...

The first book to systematically reconstruct the centrality of women's labor to eighteenth-century personal credit relationships, To Her Credit wil...

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

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

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

As the Zhen Empire descends into civil war, Tajen, Liam, and Katherine each have their own part to play in the final conflict between the humans an...

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers...