Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850 – serie
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Horace Walpole's Letters
Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2011
1396 kr
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In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; his …
Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Häftad, 2021
524 kr
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This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the …
Women's Literary Networks and Media Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Leith Davis, Michelle Levy m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
541 kr
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This pathbreaking collection features original essays by leading scholars working at the intersections of women's literary history, book history, and media cultures. Drawing on underexplored archives and innovative methodologies—from feminist bibliography to digital humanities—the contributors …
Horace Walpole's Letters
Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century
E-bok, 2011
1491 kr
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In looking closely at Horace Walpole''s Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; his …
Self as Muse
Narcissism and Creativity in the German Imagination 1750-1830
E-bok, 2011
1395 kr
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While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of …
Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence
An Actor in Earnest
E-bok, 2011
1269 kr
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Ambitious polymath Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) was the lynch pin of the most fascinating family in Anglo-Irish literary history. The godson (and future biographer) of Jonathan Swift, the son of Thomas Sheridan senior, a talented poet and scholar, the husband of the novelist Frances Sheridan and the …
Figures of Memory
From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
E-bok, 2011
1642 kr
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Zsolt Komáromy’s Figures of Memory: From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics affects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century British aesthetics. It argues that the assessment of memory in the history of aesthetics and criticism has been determined by the …
Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment
Travels through France, Italy, and Scotland
Inbunden, 2011
1641 kr
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Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist whereas in the eighteenth century he was primarily regarded as a historian and critic. In Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings and establishes new …
Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment
Travels Through France, Italy, and Scotland
E-bok, 2011
1754 kr
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Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist whereas in the eighteenth century he was primarily regarded as a historian and critic. In Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment , Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett''s journalistic and literary writings and establishes new …
Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s
Public Affection and Private Affliction
E-bok, 2012
1272 kr
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This book explores the ways in which five female radical novelists of the 1790s—Elizabeth Inchbald, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft—attempted to use the components of private life to work toward widespread social reform. These writers depict the conjugal family as …
Race Of Female Patriots
Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688–1745
Av Brett Wilson
E-bok, 2011
1828 kr
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A Race of Female Patriots argues that public-spirited women proliferated on the eighteenth-century British stage to catalyze an affective experience of political belonging, as dramatists imagined new forms of affiliation, allegiance, and loyalty suitable to the new British constitution established …
Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy
Women'S Desire, Deception, and Agency
E-bok, 2011
754 kr
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Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy examines the extraordinary focus on coy women in late seventeenth-century English comedy. Plays by Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Behn, Shadwell, Congreve, Trotter, Southerne, Vanbrugh, and Pix—as well as much modern scholarship about them—taint almost all …
Modern Antiques
The Material Past in England, 1660–1780
Inbunden, 2011
1641 kr
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The recovery and reinvention of the past were fundamental to the conception of the modern in England during the long eighteenth century. Scholars then forged connections between linear time and empirical evidence that transformed historical consciousness. Chronologers, textual critics, and …
Modern Antiques
The Material Past in England, 1660–1780
E-bok, 2011
1754 kr
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The recovery and reinvention of the past were fundamental to the conception of the modern in England during the long eighteenth century. Scholars then forged connections between linear time and empirical evidence that transformed historical consciousness. Chronologers, textual critics, and …
Revealing Bodies
Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Erin M. Goss
Inbunden, 2012
1470 kr
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Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding of our own bodies? Focusing on the tension between particularity and generality that inheres in intellectual discourse about the body, Revealing Bodies …
Revealing Bodies
Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Erin M. Goss
E-bok, 2012
785 kr
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Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding of our own bodies? Focusing on the tension between particularity and generality that inheres in intellectual discourse about the body, Revealing Bodies …
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals
E-bok, 2012
965 kr
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Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century. Unique to the British eighteenth century, the periodical is of great value to scholars of English cultural studies …
Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment
Av Yaël Schlick
E-bok, 2012
877 kr
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Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s …
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness
Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2012
1396 kr
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Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel’s participation in eighteenth-century “inquiries after happiness,” an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on …
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness
Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment
E-bok, 2012
896 kr
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Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel’s participation in eighteenth-century “inquiries after happiness,” an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on …
John Galt
Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History, and Society
E-bok, 2012
1642 kr
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This volume offers a revaluation of the work of Romantic-era Scottish writer John Galt. Galt traveled throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds and founded the Canadian city of Guelph while remaining in touch with local cultures and politics in Scotland and England. He wrote fiction, drama, …
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715
Seditious Frivolity
Inbunden, 2012
1557 kr
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Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution …
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715
Seditious Frivolity
E-bok, 2012
896 kr
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Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution …
Excitable Imaginations
Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660–1760
E-bok, 2012
896 kr
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Excitable Imaginations offers a new approach to the history of pornography. Looking beyond a counter-canon of bawdy literature, Kathleen Lubey identifies a vigilant attentiveness to sex across a wide spectrum of literary and philosophical texts in eighteenth-century Britain. Esteemed public modes …
Stael’s Philosophy of the Passions
Sensibility, Society and the Sister Arts
Av Tili Boon Cuillé, Karyna Szmurlo
Inbunden, 2012
1805 kr
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Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade’s vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion of …
Stael’s Philosophy of the Passions
Sensibility, Society and the Sister Arts
Av Tili Boon Cuillé, Karyna Szmurlo
E-bok, 2012
986 kr
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Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade’s vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion of …
French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814
The Struggle for History's Authority
Inbunden, 2012
1641 kr
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This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself, …
French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814
The Struggle for History's Authority
E-bok, 2012
896 kr
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This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself, …
Reading 1759
Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Av Shaun Regan
Inbunden, 2012
1478 kr
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Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. …
Reading 1759
Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Av Shaun Regan
E-bok, 2012
896 kr
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Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. …
