Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies – serie
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Radical Voices, Radical Ways
Articulating and Disseminating Radicalism in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain
Av Laurent Curelly, Nigel Smith
Inbunden, 2016
1337 kr
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This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century. The essays included in the volume explore the modes of articulation and …
English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century
Living Spirituality
Inbunden, 2017
1192 kr
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This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns' own collections of notes. It highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns' …
Challenge of the Sublime
From Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art
Av Helene Ibata
Inbunden, 2018
1123 kr
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This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), in particular, is shown to have …
Challenge of the Sublime
From Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art
Av Helene Ibata
Häftad, 2020
435 kr
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This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), in particular, is shown to have …
Frontiers of Servitude
Slavery in Narratives of the Early French Atlantic
Inbunden, 2018
1263 kr
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Frontiers of servitude explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery in little-examined printed and archival sources, focusing on what 'made' a slave, what was unique about Caribbean labour, and what strategic approaches meant in interacting with slaves. From c. …
Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century
Av Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1337 kr
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This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These inner organs and the digestive process …
Radical Voices, Radical Ways
Articulating and Disseminating Radicalism in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain
Av Laurent Curelly, Nigel Smith
Häftad, 2018
456 kr
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This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century. The essays included in the volume explore the modes of articulation and …
Changing Satire
Transformations and Continuities in Europe, 1600–1830
Av Cecilia Rosengren, Per Sivefors m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1493 kr
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This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Changing satire demonstrates how satire proliferated in various formats, and discusses …
Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century
Av Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
456 kr
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This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These inner organs and the digestive process …
Religion and Life Cycles in Early Modern England
Av Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1298 kr
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Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c. 1550–1800. Featuring chapters on Catholic, Protestant and …
People and piety
Protestant devotional identities in early modern England
Av Elizabeth Clarke, Robert W. Daniel
E-bok, 2020
410 kr
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This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, the book examines the ‘sites’ where these identities were forged – the academy, printing house, household, theatre and prison – and …
People and piety
Protestant devotional identities in early modern England
Av Elizabeth Clarke, Robert W. Daniel
Inbunden, 2020
1411 kr
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This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, the book examines the ‘sites’ where these identities were forged – the academy, printing house, household, theatre and prison – and …
People and piety
Protestant devotional identities in early modern England
Av Elizabeth Clarke, Robert W. Daniel
E-bok, 2020
410 kr
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This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, the book examines the ‘sites’ where these identities were forged – the academy, printing house, household, theatre and prison – and …
Murky waters
British spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature
Inbunden, 2022
1263 kr
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Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care …
Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters
Av Greg Miller, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
Inbunden, 2022
1381 kr
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George Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together. This collection explores connections between the full range of the brothers’ writings and activities, …
Agents of European Overseas Empires
Private Colonisers, 1450-1800
Av Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L. H. Roper m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1329 kr
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Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: ‘private’ European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt …
Murky waters
British spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature
Häftad, 2024
374 kr
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Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care …
Club sociability in colonial America
From British tradition to American experience, 1720–76
Inbunden, 2026
1236 kr
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This book examines the cultural transfer of the British club model to the English-speaking colonies of North America. The gentlemen’s club, which flourished in eighteenth-century Britain, became a highly exportable institution throughout the Empire. This study shows that this unique model of …
People and piety
Protestant devotional identities in early modern England
Av Elizabeth Clarke, Robert W. Daniel
Häftad, 2025
418 kr
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This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, the book examines the ‘sites’ where these identities were forged – the academy, printing house, household, theatre and prison – and …
Virtue reconsider’d
Married women in England during the long eighteenth century
Av Alison Daniell, Kim Simpson
Inbunden, 2026
1337 kr
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Wives have long been neglected as a topic of scholarly research. The invisibility of married women in England within the historical record, the complexities of their legal and economic status, and an erroneous belief that women’s activities were confined to the domestic has meant that little …
poet on stage 1558–1660
A glorious parasite?
Inbunden, 2026
1402 kr
Kommande
This study examines the image of the poet in early modern plays from 1558–1660, drawing on rarely discussed dramatic material by figures such as Shirley and Brome. It investigates how playwrights depict poets as working professionals and as socially ambivalent figures shaped by patronage, rivalry …
Agents of European overseas empires
Private colonisers, 1450-1800
Av Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L. H. Roper m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
456 kr
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Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: ‘private’ European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt …
