Author : Jessica Richard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230307272
Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.
Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1009079638
English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a 'gambling mania'. Drawing on a vast range of new empirical evidence, Bob Harris explores the growth and prevalence of gambling across Britain and investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
Author : I. Csengei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230359175
What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts.
Author : Amy Prendergast
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137512717
The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France.
Author : Emrys Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137300507
Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.
Author : Jessica Richard
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230278875
Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.
Author : C. Packham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230368395
This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.
Author : M. Bigold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2013-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137033576
Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.
Author : R. Squibbs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137378247
Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.
Author : Gillian Russell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1137474319
This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces.
