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Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Literature
13 Volume Set
Av Various
2020
31428 kr
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This 13 volume set contains titles, originally published between 1949 and 1991. Focusing on eighteenth-century England it includes titles which examine novels, drama and poetry from the time. There are titles that discuss the literature in a historical, sociological and political context as well as …
Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Defoe, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was particularly common from the Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1973, the author breaks new ground in revealing that …
Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Defoe, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was particularly common from the Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1973, the author breaks new ground in revealing that …
Work in the English Novel
The Myth of Vocation
Av Ruth Danon
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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Originally published in 1985, this book traces the development of an ideal of work in English writing which runs parallel to that of the Protestant work ethic. The author has called this the myth of vocation: work is seen as the primary source of self-definition, psychic integration and fulfilment. …
Work in the English Novel
The Myth of Vocation
Av Ruth Danon
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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Originally published in 1985, this book traces the development of an ideal of work in English writing which runs parallel to that of the Protestant work ethic. The author has called this the myth of vocation: work is seen as the primary source of self-definition, psychic integration and fulfilment. …
Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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Recent scholarship had emphasised the importance of a number of non-literary, economic and social debates to the understanding of Augustan Literature. Debates over the place of land, money, credit and luxury in society, as well as strands of radical thinking, are prominent throughout the …
Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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Recent scholarship had emphasised the importance of a number of non-literary, economic and social debates to the understanding of Augustan Literature. Debates over the place of land, money, credit and luxury in society, as well as strands of radical thinking, are prominent throughout the …
Liberty and Poetics in Eighteenth Century England
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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The qualities and achievements of eighteenth century English literature have suffered denigration as a result of a prevailing Whig interpretation of literary history. It is the contention of this book, originally published in 1986, that an alternative form of Whig interpretation is possible and …
Liberty and Poetics in Eighteenth Century England
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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The qualities and achievements of eighteenth century English literature have suffered denigration as a result of a prevailing Whig interpretation of literary history. It is the contention of this book, originally published in 1986, that an alternative form of Whig interpretation is possible and …
Essays on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage
Av Kenneth R. Richards, Peter Thomson
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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The eighteenth century produced more inventive actors than fine dramatists, and it displayed its actors to increasing advantage as theatre management became more expert, and stage design more ambitious. First published in 1972, the eleven papers collected in The Eighteenth-Century English Stage, …
Essays on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage
Av Kenneth R. Richards, Peter Thomson
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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The eighteenth century produced more inventive actors than fine dramatists, and it displayed its actors to increasing advantage as theatre management became more expert, and stage design more ambitious. First published in 1972, the eleven papers collected in The Eighteenth-Century English Stage, …
Eighteenth Century
The Context of English Literature
Av Pat Rogers
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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The aim of this book, originally published in 1978, is to make the reading of literary classics such as Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Jones, The Beggar’s Opera and Tristram Shandy an even richer experience by giving them an intelligible place in history. The ‘context’ is seen not as a …
Eighteenth Century
The Context of English Literature
Av Pat Rogers
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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The aim of this book, originally published in 1978, is to make the reading of literary classics such as Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Jones, The Beggar’s Opera and Tristram Shandy an even richer experience by giving them an intelligible place in history. The ‘context’ is seen not as a …
Literature and Crime in Augustan England
Av Ian A. Bell
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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Eighteenth-century England saw an explosion of writings about deviance. In literature, in the law, and in the press, writers returned again and again to the question of crime and criminals.While the extension of the legal system formalised the power of the state to categorise and punish ‘deviance’, …
Literature and Crime in Augustan England
Av Ian A. Bell
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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Eighteenth-century England saw an explosion of writings about deviance. In literature, in the law, and in the press, writers returned again and again to the question of crime and criminals.While the extension of the legal system formalised the power of the state to categorise and punish ‘deviance’, …
Before Jane Austen
The Shaping of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2020
2890 kr
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Few centuries have seen greater changes in social perspective and guiding ideas than the eighteenth century; literature in every Western country was a powerful instrument not only in recording these changes but in bringing them about. In England, the rise and development of a new literary form – …
Before Jane Austen
The Shaping of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2022
661 kr
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Few centuries have seen greater changes in social perspective and guiding ideas than the eighteenth century; literature in every Western country was a powerful instrument not only in recording these changes but in bringing them about. In England, the rise and development of a new literary form – …
Third Earl of Shaftesbury
A Study in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory
Av R.L. Brett
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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The third Earl of Shaftesbury had generally been known as the forerunner of the Moral Sense school of philosophers in the eighteenth century. Surprisingly little attention had been paid to his importance for literature and yet undoubtedly this had been very great. Originally published in 1951, this …
Third Earl of Shaftesbury
A Study in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory
Av R.L. Brett
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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The third Earl of Shaftesbury had generally been known as the forerunner of the Moral Sense school of philosophers in the eighteenth century. Surprisingly little attention had been paid to his importance for literature and yet undoubtedly this had been very great. Originally published in 1951, this …
Woman's View
An Anthology of Prose Passages about Women, from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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What is it like being a woman – in society, in the home and as a person in one’s own right? Originally published in 1967, here is a collection of passages, all linked by their theme, that of being a woman. They are taken from novels, essays, letters and diaries written by or about women concerning …
Woman's View
An Anthology of Prose Passages about Women, from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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What is it like being a woman – in society, in the home and as a person in one’s own right? Originally published in 1967, here is a collection of passages, all linked by their theme, that of being a woman. They are taken from novels, essays, letters and diaries written by or about women concerning …
Augustan World
Life and Letters in Eighteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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The outlook of writers in the eighteenth century was profoundly influenced by the social and intellectual interests of Augustan life. Originally published in 1954, this book aims to describe that influence, and to set the literature of the period in its social environment with a critical attention. …
Augustan World
Life and Letters in Eighteenth-Century England
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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The outlook of writers in the eighteenth century was profoundly influenced by the social and intellectual interests of Augustan life. Originally published in 1954, this book aims to describe that influence, and to set the literature of the period in its social environment with a critical attention. …
From Fiction to the Novel
Av Geoffrey Day
Inbunden, 2020
2102 kr
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Originally published in 1987, this title is a comprehensive study focused on experimental forms in eighteenth-century fiction. It suggests that the eighteenth-century novel is misread because it is judged with the templates of nineteenth and twentieth century versions of ‘the novel’ in mind, rather …
Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Av John Arthos
Inbunden, 2020
2890 kr
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Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of …
Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Av John Arthos
Häftad, 2022
661 kr
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Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of …
From Fiction to the Novel
Av Geoffrey Day
Häftad, 2022
628 kr
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Originally published in 1987, this title is a comprehensive study focused on experimental forms in eighteenth-century fiction. It suggests that the eighteenth-century novel is misread because it is judged with the templates of nineteenth and twentieth century versions of ‘the novel’ in mind, rather …
