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On Declaring Love
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen
Av Fred Parker
Inbunden, 2018
2890 kr
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"What did she say? – Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does."This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written between the middle of the eighteenth century and the death of Jane Austen - and uncovers the uncertain boundaries of the self in the force-field of …
Before Crusoe
Defoe, Voice, and the Ministry
Inbunden, 2018
2890 kr
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Penny Pritchard is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, and has taught at the University of Hertfordshire since completing her PhD in 2006. Both her doctoral thesis (entitled ‘Defoe, Rhetoric, and Nonconformity’) and MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies were undertaken at the University …
Moral Cupidity and Lettres de cachet in Diderot’s Writing
Inbunden, 2019
2890 kr
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This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot’s personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot’s experience as recipient of two such arrest warrants, followed by an analysis of his references to these warrants in three of his fictional works, Le …
Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity
Häftad, 2019
879 kr
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The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century. John Locke’s philosophical discussion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding fostered a public debate upon the status of an immortal Christian soul. This book argues that Defoe, like …
Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne
Reconsiderations of His Early Career
Av A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
Inbunden, 2020
2890 kr
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This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of …
Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2019
2890 kr
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This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth century: masculinity compromised. During this timespan, there was hardly a literary or artistic genre that did not feature unmanning regularly and prominently: from harrowing …
Spy on Eliza Haywood
Addresses to a Multifarious Writer
Av Aleksondra Hultquist, Chris Mounsey
Inbunden, 2021
3158 kr
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Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment. Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to her last completed project The Invisible Spy (1755) spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda, satire, and translations. …
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism
Fact, Fiction, and Voice
Häftad, 2023
795 kr
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Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women writers of the French Enlightenment due to her "epistolary feminism". Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), between fact and …
Hannah More in Context
Inbunden, 2022
2890 kr
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This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most influential writers and campaigners of the late …
Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne
Reconsiderations of His Early Career
Av A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
Häftad, 2023
745 kr
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This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of …
Before Crusoe
Defoe, Voice, and the Ministry
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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Penny Pritchard is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, and has taught at the University of Hertfordshire since completing her PhD in 2006. Both her doctoral thesis (entitled ‘Defoe, Rhetoric, and Nonconformity’) and MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies were undertaken at the University …
On Declaring Love
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen
Av Fred Parker
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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"What did she say? – Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does."This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written between the middle of the eighteenth century and the death of Jane Austen - and uncovers the uncertain boundaries of the self in the force-field of …
Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature
Happiness and Human Rights
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects who had no need of understanding why what was …
Errors and Reconciliations
Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread in …
Wordsworth Before Coleridge
The Growth of the Poet’s Philosophical Mind, 1785-1797
Av Mark Bruhn
Häftad, 2020
846 kr
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Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth’s intellectual development and thereby overturns a century-old consensus that derives his most important philosophical ideas from Coleridge. Beginning with …
Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship
Beyond Recovery
Av Robin Runia
Häftad, 2020
846 kr
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There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academic circles. The Future of Eighteenth-Century Feminist Scholarship: Beyond Recovery shows us otherwise. Each of the essays in this volume reaffirms the …
Narrating Cultural Encounter
Representations of India by Select Enlightenment Women Writers
Inbunden, 2021
2890 kr
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This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers’ responses to India through the novel and travel writing to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their complex negotiation with the colonial discourse. Though British women enjoyed their privileged racial …
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism
Fact, Fiction, and Voice
Inbunden, 2020
3158 kr
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Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women writers of the French Enlightenment due to her "epistolary feminism". Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), between fact and …
Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire
�The Scope in Ev�ry Page�
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread …
Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing …
Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Richardson, Burney, Austen
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic theories regarding the sources of individual and national wealth along with …
New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature
Power, Sex, and Text
Av Aleksondra Hultquist, Elizabeth Mathews
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley’s multifaceted contributions to eighteenth-century literature, and demonstrates the wide range of thinking about her literary production and …
Thomas Reid and Scepticism
His Reliabilist Response
Av Philip De Bary, Philip de Bary
Inbunden, 2001
2513 kr
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This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his predecessors. Turning to the positive part of Reid's programme, the author then develops a fresh …
Epistolary Novel
Representations of Consciousness
Av Joe Bray
Inbunden, 2003
2890 kr
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The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel.Critics have drawn a distinction between the …
Slavery and Augustan Literature
Swift, Pope and Gay
Av J Richardson
Inbunden, 2003
2890 kr
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Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase substantially the English share of the international slave trade. They all wrote in support of the …
Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century
Anxious Employment
Av Iona Italia
Inbunden, 2005
2890 kr
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Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by both …
Female Reader in the English Novel
From Burney to Austen
Av Joe Bray
Inbunden, 2008
2890 kr
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This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female reader in particular as passive and impressionable; liable to identify dangerously with the world of her reading. This study shows that …
Thomas Reid and Scepticism
His Reliabilist Response
Av Philip De Bary, Philip de Bary
Häftad, 2006
750 kr
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This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his predecessors. Turning to the positive part of Reid's programme, the author then develops a fresh …
Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755
Häftad, 2012
946 kr
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Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the period—Addison, Steele, Shaftesbury, and Richardson—as reactionary responses to the widely-consumed and …
Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment
Häftad, 2012
930 kr
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Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related to artistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legal scholars have anything to learn from each other, or should the legal debate be viewed as separate from questions of aesthetics? Bridging what are usually …
