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Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism
Independence, Rights and the Experience of Unfreedom
Häftad, 2024
628 kr
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Mary Wollstonecraft is a writer whose work continues to provoke scholarly debate. Halldenius explores Wollstonecraft’s political philosophy, focusing on her treatment of republicanism and independence, to propose a new way of reading her work – that of a ‘feminist republican’.
William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment
Contexts and Legacy
Av James Grande, James Grande m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
809 kr
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William Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Humbly born in Surrey, following a career in the British army in Canada from 1784, he cut his journalistic teeth as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United States, defending all things British against the French Revolution and its …
Cameralism and the Enlightenment
Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective
Av Ere Nokkala, Nicholas B. Miller
Häftad, 2021
710 kr
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Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other. It builds on recent insights from global history, transnational history and Enlightenment studies to reflect on the dynamic interactions of cameralism, an …
Before Blackwood's
Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment
Häftad, 2024
738 kr
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This collection of essays is the result of a major conference focusing specifically on the role of Scotland’s print culture in shaping the literature and politics of the long eighteenth century. In contrast to previous studies, this work treats Blackwood’s Magazine as the culmination of a long …
Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840
Av Alex Benchimol, Gerard Lee McKeever
Inbunden, 2018
2863 kr
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The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland’s post-1707 project of …
Romantic Localities
Europe Writes Place
Av Christoph Bode, Christoph Bode m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes – both geographical and metaphorical – and literatures.
The Sublime Invention
Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820
Häftad, 2016
944 kr
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Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the …
William Godwin and the Theatre
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality …
Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment
Häftad, 2016
839 kr
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During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of expression. At the forefront of this change were architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Kondo’s work places them within the context of …
Sociability and Cosmopolitanism
Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment
Av David Burrow, David Burrow m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
839 kr
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This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society.
Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute
Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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Dialogue was a pivotal genre for the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Focusing on non-canonical British writers Wallbank examines the evolution of dialogue as a genre during the Romantic period.
Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment
Häftad, 2016
839 kr
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The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of ‘humanity’ through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of …
The Poetic Enlightenment
Poetry and Human Science, 1650–1820
Av Rowan Boyson
Häftad, 2016
1054 kr
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The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human …
The Language of Whiggism
Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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The premise of Chittick's study is that the national discourse found in British periodical literature of 1802-30 is crucial to an understanding of the literary language of the era.
The English Deists
Studies in Early Enlightenment
Av Wayne Hudson
Häftad, 2016
815 kr
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Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was …
Enlightenment and Modernity
The English Deists and Reform
Av Wayne Hudson
Häftad, 2016
839 kr
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The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into …
Harlequin Empire
Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment
Häftad, 2016
839 kr
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Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a …
Writing the Empire
Robert Southey and Romantic Colonialism
Av Carol Bolton
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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Examines a range of Robert Southey's writing to explore the relationship between Romantic literature and colonial politics during the expansion of Britain's second empire. This study draws upon a range of interdisciplinary materials to consider the impact of his work upon nineteenth-century views …
Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society
Av Eugene Heath
Häftad, 2016
916 kr
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Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted …
The Scottish People and the French Revolution
Av Bob Harris
Häftad, 2016
839 kr
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Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining …
Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism
Av Jacqueline Labbe, Jacqueline Labbe
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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Charlotte Smith's early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form; her novels advanced sensibility beyond its reliance on emotional facility; and her blank verse initiated one of the most familiar of Romantic verse forms. This volume draws together the best of current scholarship.
Rhyming Reason
The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
Häftad, 2016
423 kr
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During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on psychologist-poets who grew out of the literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They used poetry as an accessible form to communicate emerging psychological, cultural and moral ideas.
John Thelwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon
Häftad, 2016
973 kr
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John Thelwall was a Romantic and Enlightenment polymath. In 1794 he was tried and acquitted of high treason, earning himself the disdainful soubriquet 'acquitted felon' from Secretary of State for War, William Windham. Later, Thelwall's interests turned to poetry and plays, and was a collaborator …
William Wickham, Master Spy
The Secret War Against the French Revolution
Häftad, 2016
865 kr
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A biography of William Wickham (1761-1840), Britain's master spy on the Continent for more than five years during the French Revolutionary wars. It follows Wickham's career to narrate the rise and fall of his secret service community.
Montesquieu and England
Enlightened Exchanges, 1689–1755
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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Gonthier sets Montesquieu's work in the context of early eighteenth-century Anglo-French relations, taking a comparative approach to show how Montesquieu's engagement with English thought and writing persisted throughout his writing career.
The Spirit of the Union
Popular Politics in Scotland
Häftad, 2016
839 kr
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Pentland's study has 3 aims: to place the uprising in a wider context by exploring the modes of extra-parliamentary politics between 1815 and1820 as well as the situation outside Scotland; (ii) to provide the first full account of the rising itself; and (iii) to examine the legacies of both the …
The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain
Mammoth and Megalonyx
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey's "Edinburgh Review" established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the "Edinburgh Review" for over fifty years. It contextualizes the periodical within the culture wars of the …
Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835
Av Tristanne Connolly, Steve Clark
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and …
British Visions of America, 1775-1820
Republican Realities
Av Emma Macleod
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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Macleod examines changing British conceptions of America across the political spectrum during a period of political, cultural and intellectual upheaval. Macleod incorporates British writers of conservative, liberal and radical views.
The Cosmopolitan Ideal
Häftad, 2016
587 kr
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Examines the new internationalism which emerged in Europe during the Enlightenment. This is the study of cosmopolitanism, which takes into account feminist and post-colonial critiques of the Enlightenment. It also offers cosmopolitanism as a solution to contemporary struggles to reach a …
