A History of England in the Eighteenth Century
Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Paul Langford
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0192853996
Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.
Author : Colin Heydt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1108421091
A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.
Author : William Tullett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0192582453
In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.
Author : Frank O'Gorman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1472508939
This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in the last two decades. The book considers the development of the internal structure of Britain and explores the growing sense of British nationhood. It looks at the role of religion in matters of state and society, in addition to society's own move towards a class-based system. Commercial and imperial expansion, Britain's role in Europe and the early stages of liberalism are also examined. This new edition is fully updated to include: - Revised and thorough treatments of the themes of gender and religion and of the 1832 Reform Act - New sections on 'Commerce and Empire' and 'Britain and Europe' - Several new maps and charts - A revised introduction and a more extensive conclusion - Updated note sections and bibliographies The Long Eighteenth Century is the essential text for any student seeking to understand the nuances of this absorbing period of British history.
Author : Thomas Whipple Perry
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 1962
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674724006
This book is the first thorough account of the Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753, a notorious but little-understood episode in English history. The author discusses the position of the Jews in the mid-eighteenth century and explains why they sought and obtained passage of the bill, which was opposed with a well-organized propaganda campaign.
Author : John Richetti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1119082129
A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have received less attention by modern scholars, such as Matthew Prior and Charles Churchill. Uniquely, the book also discusses noncanonical, working-class writers and demotic works of the era. During the eighteenth-century, Britain experienced vast social, political, economic, and existential changes, greatly influencing the literary world. The major forms of verse, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, experimental works, drama, and political prose from writers such as Montagu, Finch, Johnson, Goldsmith and Cowper, are discussed here in relation to their historical context. A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is essential reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of English literature. Topics covered include: Verse in the early 18th century, from Pope, Gay, and Swift to Addison, Defoe, Montagu, and Finch Poetry from the mid- to late-century, highlighting the works of Johnson, Gray, Collins, Smart, Goldsmith, and Cowper among others, as well as women and working-class poets Prose Fiction in the early and 18th century, including Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett The novel past mid-century, including experimental works by Johnson, Sterne, Mackenzie, Walpole, Goldsmith, and Burney Non-fiction prose, including political and polemical prose 18th century drama
Author : Hannah Barker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1317889134
A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of gender history as a whole and the study of eighteenth-century England. This is an exciting collection which is a major revision of the subject.
Author : H. T. Dickinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0470998873
This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically and socially advanced, politically liberal and religiously tolerant nation in Europe. Covers political, social, cultural, economic and religious history. Written by an international team of experts. Examines Britain's position from the perspective of other European nations.
Author : Julie Park
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804756961
The Self and It makes a fresh and bold intervention in histories and theories of the rise of the novel by arguing that the material objects proliferating in eighteenth-century England's consumer markets worked in conjunction with the novel as vital tools for fashioning the modern self.