Women in Wartime. Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century, Paperback - ***

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Reducere. How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how co...

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

Through analysis of the life and writings of eighteenth-century Quaker artist and author Mary Knowles, Judith Jennings uncovers concrete but comple...

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

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

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

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 236 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

In this study, Diane Purkiss investigates the diverse interpretations and meanings attributed to the figure of the witch. The areas she considers i...

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

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

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

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 ...

Publisher: University of Virginia PressAuthor(s): Adam SillsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 255 x 21Cover type: Paperba...

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

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 ...

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

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. It covers topics that include - di...