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  • av Eugene Heath
    834 - 1 883,-

  • - Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective
    av Anthony J. La Vopa
    583 - 2 156,-

  • av Michael Scrivener
    510 - 781,-

  • av Jacqueline Labbe
    745 - 1 883,-

  • - Europe Writes Place
    av Christoph Bode
    745 - 2 010,-

  • - Contexts and Legacy
    av James Grande
    583 - 2 184,-

    Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Following a career in the British army he began writing as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United States, defending all things British against the French Revolution and its supporters. This is the first collection on Cobbett and contains essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines.

  • - Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution
    av Adrian J. Wallbank
    745 - 1 946,-

    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.

  • - Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment
    av David Burrow & Scott Brueninger
    745 - 1 883,-

  • av David O'Shaughnessy
    745 - 1 883,-

  • - Ballooning in Europe, 1783-1820
    av Michael R. Lynn
    858 - 2 010,-

  • - Enlightened Exchanges, 1689-1755
    av Ursula Haskins Gonthier
    745 - 1 946,-

    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 Secret War Against the French Revolution
    av Michael Durey
    741 - 2 010,-

  • - The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
    av Michelle Faubert
    358 - 572,-

  • av Bob Harris
    745 - 2 010,-

  • av Alexander Cook
    745 - 2 184,-

    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 conversation and musicology.

  • - Robert Southey and Romantic Colonialism
    av Carol Bolton
    745 - 1 883,-

  • av Jonathan Lamb
    745 - 2 010,-

    This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the market, global exploration, theatre, and torture.

  • - Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment
    av David Worrall
    745 - 1 883,-

  • - Republican Realities
    av Emma Macleod
    745 - 2 210,-

    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.

  • av Steve Clark
    745 - 1 932,-

  • - Mammoth and Megalonyx
    av William Christie
    750,-

    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 Romantic era.

  • - Studies in Early Enlightenment
    av Wayne Hudson
    745 - 2 010,-

    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 multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.

  • - Liberty and Patriotism, 1802-1830
    av Kathryn Chittick
    745 - 1 862,-

  • av Ariyuki Kondo
    745 - 1 883,-

    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 eighteenth-century intellectual thought.

  • - Popular Politics in Scotland
    av Gordon Pentland
    745 - 2 010,-

    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 politics of 1815-20 and the Radical War.

  • av Michael T Davis
    1 999,-

    Radical printer and pamphleteer, Daniel Isaac Eaton, was prosecuted eight times between 1793 and 1812, finally being convicted over his printing of Paine's Age of Reason. This book is the first published account of his life and career and includes significant detail on the radical book trade as well as the incendiary political climate of the time.

  • - Poetry and Human Science, 1650-1820
    av Rowan Boyson
    838 - 2 210,-

    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 science.

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    2 142,-

    This collection foregrounds 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 modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere.

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