Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies – serie
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46 produkter
Political Biography of Sarah Fielding
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding provides the most complete discussion of Fielding’s works and career currently available. Tracing the development of Fielding’s artistic and instructive agendas from her earliest publications forward, Johnson presents a compelling portrait of a deeply read …
Political Biography of William King
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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William King (1650–1729) was perhaps the dominant Irish intellect of the period from 1688 until his death in 1729. An Anglican (Church of Ireland) by conversion, King was a strident critic of John Toland and the clerical superior of Jonathan Swift.
Political Biography of Samuel Johnson
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of …
Political Biography of Thomas Paine
Av W A Speck
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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Speck's biography examines Paine's work afresh, in light of new thinking about the role of religion in the formation of his political ideology, and also places Paine within the recently-developed context of 'Atlantic History'.
Political Biography of Daniel Defoe
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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Furbank and Owens attempt to disentangle the story of Daniel Defoe’s political career, as journalist, polemicist, political theorist and secret agent. They argue that this remarkable career calls for a good deal of rethinking, not least because biography and bibliography are here inextricably …
Political Biography of Jonathan Swift
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.
Political Biography of Delarivier Manley
Häftad, 2016
608 kr
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A Tory pamphleteer, playwright and satirical historian, Delarivier Manley was regarded by her contemporaries Jonathan Swift and Robert Harley as a key member of the Tory propaganda team. This biography offers details about her life, including evidence about three illegitimate children by John …
Political Biography of Richard Steele
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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Richard Steele is famous as an early writer of sentimental drama and as half of the writing team, Addison and Steele. He is notable both for the indirect propaganda he developed with Addison and for the open partisanship of his own periodicals. He wrote extensively about responsible economics but …
Political Biography of John Toland
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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John Toland was notorious. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, situating his writings within the controversies that …
Political Biography of Eliza Haywood
Häftad, 2016
978 kr
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While under arrest in 1750 on suspicion of producing a seditious pamphlet Eliza Haywood insisted she ‘never wrote any thing in a political way’. This study of the life and works, the first full-length biography of Haywood in nearly a century, takes the measure of her duplicity.
Political Biography of Alexander Pope
Av Pat Rogers
Häftad, 2016
978 kr
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This is the first study to assess the entire career of Alexander Pope (16881744) in relation to the political issues of his time.
Political Biography of Henry Fielding
Av J A Downie
Häftad, 2016
870 kr
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Existing accounts of Fielding's political ideas are insufficiently aware of the structure of politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, and of the ways in which Whig political ideology developed following the Revolution of 1688. This political biography explains and illustrates what …
Political Biography of Eliza Haywood
E-bok, 2015
1133 kr
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While under arrest in 1750 on suspicion of producing a seditious pamphlet Eliza Haywood insisted she ‘never wrote any thing in a political way’. This study of the life and works, the first full-length biography of Haywood in nearly a century, takes the measure of her duplicity.
Political Biography of Eliza Haywood
E-bok, 2015
1124 kr
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While under arrest in 1750 on suspicion of producing a seditious pamphlet Eliza Haywood insisted she ‘never wrote any thing in a political way’. This study of the life and works, the first full-length biography of Haywood in nearly a century, takes the measure of her duplicity.
Political Biography of Henry Fielding
Av J A Downie
E-bok, 2015
1007 kr
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Existing accounts of Fielding's political ideas are insufficiently aware of the structure of politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, and of the ways in which Whig political ideology developed following the Revolution of 1688. This political biography explains and illustrates what …
Political Biography of Henry Fielding
Av J A Downie
E-bok, 2015
1029 kr
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Existing accounts of Fielding's political ideas are insufficiently aware of the structure of politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, and of the ways in which Whig political ideology developed following the Revolution of 1688. This political biography explains and illustrates what …
Political Biography of John Toland
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
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John Toland was notorious. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, situating his writings within the controversies that …
Political Biography of John Toland
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
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John Toland was notorious. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, situating his writings within the controversies that …
Political Biography of Richard Steele
E-bok, 2015
1091 kr
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Richard Steele is famous as an early writer of sentimental drama and as half of the writing team, Addison and Steele. He is notable both for the indirect propaganda he developed with Addison and for the open partisanship of his own periodicals. He wrote extensively about responsible economics but …
Political Biography of Richard Steele
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
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Richard Steele is famous as an early writer of sentimental drama and as half of the writing team, Addison and Steele. He is notable both for the indirect propaganda he developed with Addison and for the open partisanship of his own periodicals. He wrote extensively about responsible economics but …
Political Biography of Delarivier Manley
E-bok, 2015
717 kr
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A Tory pamphleteer, playwright and satirical historian, Delarivier Manley was regarded by her contemporaries Jonathan Swift and Robert Harley as a key member of the Tory propaganda team. This biography offers details about her life, including evidence about three illegitimate children by John …
Political Biography of Delarivier Manley
E-bok, 2015
717 kr
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A Tory pamphleteer, playwright and satirical historian, Delarivier Manley was regarded by her contemporaries Jonathan Swift and Robert Harley as a key member of the Tory propaganda team. This biography offers details about her life, including evidence about three illegitimate children by John …
Political Biography of Jonathan Swift
E-bok, 2015
1029 kr
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Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.
Political Biography of Jonathan Swift
E-bok, 2015
1029 kr
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Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.
Political Biography of Alexander Pope
Av Pat Rogers
E-bok, 2015
1255 kr
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This is the first study to assess the entire career of Alexander Pope (16881744) in relation to the political issues of his time.
Political Biography of Alexander Pope
Av Pat Rogers
E-bok, 2015
1255 kr
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This is the first study to assess the entire career of Alexander Pope (16881744) in relation to the political issues of his time.
Political Biography of Daniel Defoe
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
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Furbank and Owens attempt to disentangle the story of Daniel Defoe’s political career, as journalist, polemicist, political theorist and secret agent. They argue that this remarkable career calls for a good deal of rethinking, not least because biography and bibliography are here inextricably …
Political Biography of Daniel Defoe
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
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Furbank and Owens attempt to disentangle the story of Daniel Defoe’s political career, as journalist, polemicist, political theorist and secret agent. They argue that this remarkable career calls for a good deal of rethinking, not least because biography and bibliography are here inextricably …
Political Biography of Thomas Paine
Av W A Speck
E-bok, 2015
1029 kr
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Speck's biography examines Paine's work afresh, in light of new thinking about the role of religion in the formation of his political ideology, and also places Paine within the recently-developed context of 'Atlantic History'.
Political Biography of Thomas Paine
Av W A Speck
E-bok, 2015
1029 kr
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Speck's biography examines Paine's work afresh, in light of new thinking about the role of religion in the formation of his political ideology, and also places Paine within the recently-developed context of 'Atlantic History'.
