Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq. ... Third edition
Author : William Cowper
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 1817
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Author : William Cowper
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 1817
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Author : William Cowper
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : British Library
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1977
Category : English imprints
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Author : J. Darcy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137271094
This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation. Reaction against philosophical biography led to a nineteenth-century taste for romanticized lives.
Author : William Cowper
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Leonard Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 3030416402
This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private ‘madhouses’. The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these madhouses and demonstrate their increasing presence in London and across the country during the long eighteenth century. Subsequent chapters deal with specific aspects in greater depth - the insane patients themselves, their characteristics, and the circumstances surrounding admissions; the madhouse proprietors, their business activities, personal attributes and professional qualifications or lack of them; changing treatment practices and the principles that informed them. Finally, the book explores conditions within the madhouses, which ranged from the relatively enlightened to the seriously defective, and reveals the experiences, concerns and protests of their many critics.
Author : Charles Wells Moulton
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Page : 808 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 1902
Category : American literature
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Author : Charles Wells Moulton
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Page : 812 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 1902
Category : American literature
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Author : A. Ingram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230306594
Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.
Author : D. Bruce Hindmarsh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2005-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191529761
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of ordinary women and men experienced evangelical conversion and turned to a certain form of spiritual autobiography to make sense of their lives. This book traces the rise and progress of conversion narrative as a unique form of spiritual autobiography in early modern England. After outlining the emergence of the genre in the seventeenth century and the revival of the form in the journals of the leaders of the Evangelical Revival, the central chapters of the book examine extensive archival sources to show the subtly different forms of narrative identity that appeared among Wesleyan Methodists, Moravians, Anglicans, Baptists, and others. Attentive to the unique voices of pastors and laypeople, women and men, Western and non-Western peoples, the book establishes the cultural conditions under which the genre proliferated.