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Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh
Av Phil Dodds
Inbunden, 2022
1731 kr
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This innovative book explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and global scales.Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did …
Material Enlightenment
Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830
Inbunden, 2018
1503 kr
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A methodologically innovative account of the role of women writers in the development of early psychological theory and practice in the long eighteenth century.Women writers played a central, but hitherto under-recognised, role in the development of the philosophy of mind and its practical …
British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century
Challenging the Anglo-French Connection
Av Valérie Capdeville, Alain Kerhervé
Inbunden, 2019
1333 kr
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This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex process of appropriation, emulation and resistance to what was happening in France and other parts of …
Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania in Britain
1770-1823
Av Ruth Scobie
Inbunden, 2019
1428 kr
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An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century.At the end of the eighteenth century metropolitan Britain was …
Things that Didn't Happen
Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678-1743
Av John McTague
Inbunden, 2019
1346 kr
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An innovative exploration of fake news and alternative reality in late Stuart and early Hanoverian political and literary culture, from the Popish Plot and the South Sea Bubble to the Dunciad.James Francis Edward Stuart, the Prince of Wales born in 1688, was not a commoner's child smuggled into the …
Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth-Century France
From Grand Tour to School Trips
Inbunden, 2020
1242 kr
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A study of the literature of the 'art of travel' in eighteenth-century France, showing how consideration of who should travel and for what purpose provided an occasion for wider debate about the social status quo.Early modern educational travel is usually associated with the Grand Tour: a young …
British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age
1670-1714
Inbunden, 2020
1279 kr
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A rich picture of commercial life among the British Catholic merchants operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean at the end of the Stuart era.British Catholic merchants in the long eighteenth century occupied an ambiguous social space. On the one hand, their religion made them marginal and …
Converting Britannia
Evangelicals and British Public Life, 1770-1840
Inbunden, 2019
1333 kr
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A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine whose reach extended into every area of the British establishment and its nascent Empire.SHORTLISTED for the EHS Book Prize 2020The moralism that characterized the decades either …
Political Journalism in London, 1695-1720
Defoe, Swift, Steele and their Contemporaries
Inbunden, 2020
2020 kr
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A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) saw a remarkable boom in political journalism and newspaper culture in London, in which some of the leading literary lights of the age, Swift, Defoe, Addison, …
Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England
Sociability, Politics and Collecting
Av Tim Somers
Inbunden, 2021
1295 kr
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Uses the collections of ephemera popular in the late seventeenth century as a way to understand the reading habits, publishing strategies and thought processes of late Stuart print culture.Cheap' genres of print such as ballads, almanacs and playing cards were part of everyday life in …
Fictions of Presence
Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2020
1489 kr
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An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found itself for the first time facing serious competition from the novel - newly respectable and increasingly …
Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840
Beyond Borders and Boundaries
Av Alexis Wolf
Inbunden, 2024
1415 kr
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Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth century.The Irish writers and editors Katherine (1773-1824) and Martha Wilmot (1775-1873) left a unique record of …
Women, Transnational Networks and Patriotism in Northern and Central Europe, 1763-1814
Av Nicole Pohl
Inbunden, 2025
1333 kr
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A gateway to the complex world of eighteenth-century sociability of elite women and of their lasting impact on modern concepts of national identity and community.In the dynamic intellectual and social landscape of eighteenth-century Northern Europe, the interplay between patriotism, nationalism, …
Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Prospect of Improvement
Av Markman Ellis, Jack Orchard
Inbunden, 2025
1333 kr
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Captures in unprecedented depth the cultural significance of the designed landscape and its relationship with Bluestocking philosophy.Situated within the broader context of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural history, this collection redefines the role of the Bluestocking circle in shaping …
Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2023
1415 kr
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Using pedagogy as a lens through which to explore issues of gender, social class, power and hegemony, Cohen's study makes a major new contribution to the study of education in eighteenth-century England.Through a detailed examination of contemporary methodologies, curricula, and practices this book …
Administrative Reform in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire
A System of Economy
Inbunden, 2025
1333 kr
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Indispensable for understanding the historical forces that shaped modern governance.How did Enlightenment philosophy shape the modern bureaucratic state? While thinkers like Adam Smith and David Hume are celebrated for their contributions to political economy, the crucial work of administrative …
Converting Britannia
Evangelicals and British Public Life, 1770-1840
Häftad, 2024
389 kr
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A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine whose reach extended into every area of the British establishment and its nascent Empire.SHORTLISTED for the EHS Book Prize 2020The moralism that characterized the decades either …
Fictions of Presence
Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2024
434 kr
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An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found itself for the first time facing serious competition from the novel - newly respectable and increasingly …
British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century
Challenging the Anglo-French Connection
Av Valérie Capdeville, Alain Kerhervé
Häftad, 2024
389 kr
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This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex process of appropriation, emulation and resistance to what was happening in France and other parts of …
Political Journalism in London, 1695-1720
Defoe, Swift, Steele and their Contemporaries
Häftad, 2024
434 kr
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A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) saw a remarkable boom in political journalism and newspaper culture in London, in which some of the leading literary lights of the age, Swift, Defoe, Addison, …
Coastal Policing in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Riddle of the Coast, c.1660-1822
Inbunden, 2025
1333 kr
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The first comprehensive study of Britain's coastal policing and administration across the long eighteenth century.Throughout Britain's past its coast has presented security concerns. Despite this long history of raids, smugglers and warfare, consistent, designated and permanent coastal enforcement …
Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819
True Britons and Celtic Empires
Inbunden, 2025
1489 kr
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Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.JOINT WINNER: 2025 Francis Jones Prize in Welsh History (Jesus College, Oxford)In the long eighteenth century, as Britain grappled with the aftermath of the 1707 Acts of Union and consolidated a global …
Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824)
Av Jane Rendall, Rachel Feldberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1933 kr
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Examines the newly-discovered diary of Jane Ewbank as a vital site of knowledge-making, illuminating women's intellectual lives in Enlightenment York, where science, cultural criticism and sociability intersected. Between 1803 and 1805, Jane Ewbank of York kept a fascinating diary which chronicled …
Comment Serials and the Rise of Party Politics in Britain, 1640–1740
Publishing Observations on the News in the Early Modern Media
Inbunden, 2026
1267 kr
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