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  • Dainotto, Roberto 1000. (Roberto Maria), 1962-
  • Durham : Duke University Printing, 2007.
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Book — 270 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary
  • Introduction : a pigs eye view of Europe
  • The discovery of Europe : some disquisitional points
  • Montesquieu's northward and south : history as a theory of Europe
  • Republics of letters : what is European literature?
  • Mme de Stal͡ to Hegel : the cease of French Europe
  • Orientalism, Mediterranean style : the limits of history at the margins of Europe.

"Europe (in Theory)" is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that go along to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and postcolonial studies, Roberto M. Dainotto deconstructs imperialism not from the so-chosen periphery but from inside Europe itself. He proposes a genealogy of Eurocentrism that accounts for the style mod theories of Europe have marginalized the continent'due south ain southern region, portraying countries including Greece, Italy, Espana, and Portugal as irrational, decadent, and clan-based in comparison to the rational, civic-minded nations of northern Europe. Dainotto argues that beginning with Montesquieu's "The Spirit of Laws" (1748), Europe not simply defined itself against an 'Oriental' other but also against elements inside its own borders: its South.He locates the roots of Eurocentrism in this disavowal; internalizing the other made it possible to understand and explicate Europe without reference to anything beyond its boundaries. Dainotto synthesizes a vast array of literary, philosophical, and historical works by authors from different parts of Europe. He scrutinizes theories that came to dominate thinking about the continent, including Montesquieu's invention of Europe's north-southward divide, Hegel'south "Two Europes, " and Madame de Stael's thought of opposing European literatures: a modern i from the N, and a pre-modernistic one from the Due south. At the same time, Dainotto brings to lite counter-narratives written from Europe'south margins, such equally the Spanish Jesuit Juan Andres' proposition that the origins of modern European civilisation were eastern rather than northern and the Italian Orientalist Michele Amari's assertion that the South was the cradle of a social democracy brought to Europe via Islam.
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  • Barker-Benfield, G. J.
  • Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Description
Book — 520 p.
Summary
  • Listing of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction
  • i: Sensibility and the Nervous Arrangement Wollstonecraft's Perspective: The Gendering of Sensibility A New Psychoperceptual Organisation The Awarding of the New System: George Cheyne, 1671-1743 The Reformation of Manners Combined with Consumerism Nerve Theory in Novels Female Fretfulness and Sensibility's Ambiguity
  • 2: The Reformation of Male person Manners The Public Manners of Men The Entrada for the Reformation of Manners Middle Religion The Civilizing Process and British Commercial Capitalism Changed Environments and the New Globe of Parents and Children
  • 3: The Question of Effeminacy Shaftesbury Mandeville Hume and Smith Henry MacKenzie Politics and Boys' Literature: Thomas Day.
  • four: Women and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism Home Demand Women Become Literate, Women Write Novels Women's Self-Expression in Fashion Fiction Records Women's Pleasure Seeking Ambivalence toward Women's Pursuit of Consumer Pleasures Gustation
  • five: A Culture of Reform Antiworldview Women and Humanitarian Reform Stalking Horses: The Campaign on Behalf of Victims of Male Barbarity Sensibility'southward Goal: The Human being of Feeling Sensibility'south Method: Conversion The Cult of Sensibility Methodism and the Culture of Sensibility The Rights of Woman and the Reformation of Manners
  • six: Women and Individualism: Inner and Outer Struggles over Sensibility The Sentimentalizing Process Egotism and Opposition The Reality of Heroism and Romance Subversive Potentials in Women'south Developing Minds: Marriage and Class Nonetheless More Destructive Potentials: Sensibility and Sex
  • 7: Wollstonecraft and the Crisis over Sensibility in the 1790s Amazons at the Boundary Wollstonecraft, Hays, and the Disharmonize over Sensibility Wollstonecraft Becomes Amazon "Man Was Made to Reason, Woman to Feel": Compromise Notes Alphabetize.
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Thou. J. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the civilisation of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. His account focuses on the ascension of new moral and spiritual values and the struggle to redefine the grouping identities of men and women. Drawing on the full spectrum of eighteenth-century thought from Adam Smith to John Locke, from the Earl of Shaftesberry to Dr. George Cheyne, and particularly Mary Wollstonecraft, Barker-Benfield offers an innovative and compelling way to empathise how Britain entered the modern age.
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Dark-green Library

  • Myrsiades, Linda S.
  • Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.
Description
Volume — 226 p. : sick., map ; 25 cm.
Summary
  • Theory
  • Medical history
  • Quacks and corpses
  • Medical feuds in Philadelphia
  • Medical feuds in the revolutionary army.

Focusing on doctors' feuds and duels, yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia, and a court-martial of the medical managing director of army hospitals in the Revolutionary State of war, this title is fix during a fourth dimension when American medicine was defenseless in a period of catastrophic alter.
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Green Library

  • London : German Historical Constitute ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Printing, 1990.
Description
Volume — ix, 597 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
  • Part 1 Politicization, the "enlightened elite" and the lower classes: crowd and people in the Gordon riots, Nicholas Rogers
  • politics and morals - the reformation of manners motion in subsequently eighteenth-century England, Joanna Inners
  • peasant resistance and politicization in Federal republic of germany in the eighteenth century, Helmut Gabel and Winifred Schulze. Part 2 Political culture in the provinces: provincial political civilization in the Holy Roman Empire - the Franconian Margravates of Ansbach and Bayreuth, Andrea Hofmeister-Hunger
  • urban civilisation and political activism in Hanoverian England - the example of voluntary hospitals, Kathleen Wilson
  • municipal politics in afterward eighteenth-century Maidstone - electoral polarization in the reign of George 3, John A.Phillips. Office 3 New forms of political socialization - clubs, societies, and associations: German associations and politics in the 2nd half of the eighteenth-century, Ulrich Im Hof
  • enlightened societies in the metropolis - the instance of Berlin, Horst Muller
  • freemasonry and the material of loyalism in Hanoverian England, John Money. Part 4 Politics and religion: the English clergy and the American revolution, Paul Langford
  • the Christian as subject field - the worldly mind of Prussian protestant theologians in the tardily enlightenment flow, Gunter Birtsch
  • pietistic millenarianism in tardily eighteenth-century Frg, Harmut Lehmann
  • heretical religion and radical political ideas in late eighteenth-century England, Martin Fitzpatrick. Office 5 Political advice and political ideas: the moral vision of Thomas Bewick, John Brewer and Stella Tillyard
  • political rhetoric in the German language enlightenment, Franz H. Robling
  • journals and public stance - the politicization of the German enlightenment in the second half of the eighteenth century, Hans Erich Bodeker
  • the true concept of liberty - political theory in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth-century, Diethelm Klippel
  • "the palladium of all other English liberties" - reflection on the liberty of the press in England during the 1760s and 1770s, Eckhart Hellmuth
  • popular loyalism in Britain in the 1790s, Harry T. Dicksons
  • conceptions of revolution in the English radicalism of the 1790s, John Dinwiddy
  • the revolutionizing of consciousness - a German language utopia?, Rudolf Vierhaus.
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The last 4 decades of the eighteenth century witnessed a sudden dispatch in the pace of change in the political cultures of England and Germany. The ways in which developments in the two countries diverged form the subjects of this book. Leaving aside high politics, it touches on a wide range of phenomena; the ideological stock of the flow, the structure of gimmicky communications, the gimmicky media, the institutional setting of politicization, forms of political association, political self-organisation, political strategies, activities, techniques and rituals. The volume is divided into v sections and contains 22 essays past scholars from England, North America and Germany. This book explores similarities besides as differences in the historical development of England and Deutschland.
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Greenish Library

  • Pittock, Murray.
  • Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Book — fifteen, 226 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (importantly color) ; 23 cm.
Summary
  • Preface Acknowledgements
  • 1. Treacherous Objects: Towards a Theory of Jacobite Material Civilisation
  • 2. Decor, Decoration and Design
  • 3. Sedition, Symbols, Colours, Cant and Codes
  • 4. Associations and Antiquarians
  • five. Glass, Ceramics, Medals, Weapons and Relics Postscript: The Making of Memory Appendix: Alphabetize of Symbols, Cant and Code Bibliography Index.
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Fabric Civilisation and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the means in which material civilization was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the eighteenth century. Challenging existing accounts of the public sphere and consumer culture, it argues that the nascence of mod Britain was accompanied by political repression which helped develop a counter-civilisation of treacherous objects and underground societies. Though set in the Jacobite period in the British Isles, it considers transnational evidence and sets out an approach which tin can be applied in a broad variety of other contexts.
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Green Library

  • Musica due east cultura nel Settecento europeo. English.
  • Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
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Book — x, 421 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • Editor's Preface Introduction Ch.
  • i: The First Polemics on Opera in Italia from On Tragedy (1715) Gian Vincenzo Gravina from On Perfect Italian Poetry (1706) Ludovico Antonio Muratori from On Ancient and Modern Tragedy (1714) Pier Jacopo Mattello from Theater a la Way (1720) Benedetto Marcello Ch.
  • 2: The Italians and the French: The Great "Querelle" from A Comparison between the French and Italian Music and Operas (1702) Francois Raguenet from Comparison of French and Italian Music (1704) Jean-Laurent Lecerf de la Vieville from The Spectacle of Nature (1746) Noel-Antoine Pluche from The Temple of Taste (1733) Voltaire from On the Freedom of Music (1759) Jean Le Rond d'Alembert from Essay on the Origins of Language (1781) Jean-Jacques Rousseau from Additions to the Letter on the Deaf and Dumb (1751) Denis Diderot from Rameau's Nephew (1760) Denis Diderot from The Niggling Prophet of Boehmischbroda (1753) Friedrich Melchior Grimm from the article "Poeme lyrique" in the Encyclopedie (1765) Friedrich Melchior Grimm Ch.
  • 3: European Rationalism and Theories of Harmony from Steps to Parnassus (1725) Johann Joseph Fux from Treatise on Harmony (1722) Jean-Philippe Rameau from Observations on Our Musical Instinct and on Its Principle (1754) Jean-Philippe Rameau from On the Principles of Musical Harmony Independent in the Diatonic Genus (1767) Giuseppe Tartini from Full general Principles of the Science of Sound (1748) Denis Diderot Ch.
  • 4: The Birth of Historiography and the Reports of Foreign Travelers in Italy from History of Music and of Its Effects (1715) Jacques Bonnet from A Dissertation on the Rise, Union, and Ability, the Progressions, Separations, and Corruptions, of Verse and Music (1763) John Brown from History of Music (1757) Giovanni Battista Martini from A General History of Music (1776) Charles Burney from A General History of the Scientific discipline and Practise of Music (1776) John Hawkins from Letter of the alphabet to M. de Maleteste (1739-forty) Charles de Brosses from Letters from Italy (1767) Samuel Sharp from An Business relationship of the Manners and Customs of Italian republic (1768) Giuseppe Baretti from General History of Music (1788) Johann Nikolaus Forkel Ch.
  • 5: The Reaction of Italian Humanists and Literati to Music from Essay on Opera (1755) Francesco Algarotti from Opera (1772) Antonio Planelli from Complete Formal and Textile Treatise on the Theater (1794) Francesco Milizia Preface to Abele: Tramelogedia (1796) Vittorio Alfieri Letter of the alphabet to Saverio Mattei, at Naples (1770) Pietro Metastasio Ch.
  • 6: High german Musical Culture and the Controversy Regarding Bach Passage on J. S. Bach from a Letter of 1737 Johann Adolf Scheibe from Impartial Remarks on a Dubious Passage in the 6th Issue of Der critische Musikus (1738) Johann Abraham Birnbaum from The Consummate Music Managing director (1739) Johann Mattheson from A Treatise on How to Play the Flute (1752) Johann Joachim Quantz from Treatise on the Fundamentals of the Violin (1756) Leopold Mozart from Guide to Playing Keyboard Instruments (1755-61) Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg from Essay on the True Fine art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753-62) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach from The Latest Study of the Opera (1744) Johann Mattheson Ch.
  • 7: Toward the Revaluation of Instrumental Music from The Complete Music Director (1739) Johann Mattheson from A Treatise on How to Play the Flute (1752) Johann Joachim Quantz from Keyboard Lessons and Principles of Harmony (1771) Denis Diderot, Anton Bemetzrieder. from An Essay on Musical Expression (1753) Charles Avison Ch.
  • 8: Sensism and Empirical Currents from The Spectator (1711) Joseph Addison from Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting, and Music (1740) Jean-Baptiste Dubos from "Music" (1765) Pietro Verri from Discourse on the Nature of Pleasure and Sorrow (1774) Pietro Verri Ch.
  • 9: The Ancients and the Moderns from On the Origin and the Rules of Music, with the History of Their Development, Decline, and Renewal (1774) Antonio Eximeno (y Pujades) from Revolutions of the Italian Musical Theater from Its Origin to the Nowadays (1785) Esteban de Arteaga from Defence force of Modernistic Music and Its Celebrated Performers (1788) Vincenzo Manfredini Ch.
  • 10: The "Querelle" Between the Gluckists and the Piccinnists from Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Abbe P. Metastasio (1755) Ranieri de' Calzabigi Preface to Alceste (1769) Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Christoph Willibald Gluck. from Essay on the Progress of Music in France (1777) Jean-Francois Marmontel from Lyceum, or Course in Ancient and Modern Literature (1803) Jean-Francois de La Harpe from Observations on Music and Principally on the Metaphysics of Art (1779) Michel-Paul Guy de Chabanon Three Letters to His Father (1781) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Biographical Dictionary Bibliography Index.
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This book features central writings most 18th-century music. Information technology brings together a selection of essential documents non only about music theory and practice, but nigh the historical, philosophical, aesthetic, ideological and literary debates which held sway during a century when musical thought and criticism gained a privileged position in the civilisation of Europe. Enrico Fubini offers a sampling of English, French, German and Italian writings on topics ranging from Enlightenment rationalism and the theories of harmony to German musical civilization and the polemics on J.S. Bach. Organized by topic and historical menstruation these selections go beyond writings dealing exclusively with specific musical works to larger problems of theory and the reception of musical ideas in the culture at large. The selections are from books, journals, newspapers, pamphlets and letters. The contributors include Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Grimm, Alfieri, Rameau, Quantz, Gluck, Tartini, Leopold and W.A. Mozart, and C.P.E. Bach. Many are translated here for the first fourth dimension. With general and chapter introductions, restored footnotes and other valuable annotations, and a biographical appendix, this anthology should be of involvement to music scholars, students and teachers.
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Music Library

  • Oxford ; New York : Oxford Academy Press, 1992.
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Book — xiv, 301 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
  • Killing pictures, Marcia Pointon
  • rewriting Shaftesbury - the "Air Pump" and the limits of commercial humanism, David Solkin
  • curiously marked - tattooing, masculinity and nationality in 18th-century British perceptions of the South Pacific, Harriet Guest
  • the origin of painting and the ends of art - Wright of Derby'south "Corinthian Maid", Ann Bermingham
  • Gainsborough's "Diana and Actaeon", Michael Rosenthal
  • Loutherbourg'south chemic theatre - "Coalbrookdale past Night", Stephen Daniels
  • J.M.W. Turner at Petworth - agronomical improvement and the politics of landscape, Alun Howkins
  • Benjamin Robert Haydon - the curtius of the Khyber Pass, John Barrell.
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An emerging general awareness of the theoretical issues involved in the study of culture and society, and the new emphasis given to the questions of class, race and gender, has produced an interdisciplinary arroyo to the written report of British art, particularly of the 18th and 19th centuries. These essays are past scholars from various disciplines, many of whom accept been at the forefront of this transformation. There are essays on Gainsborough, Joseph Wright of Derby, Turner and Benjamin Robert Haydon; on the education of art to women, on 18th-century social theories of painting, and on the representation of industrial landscape, of femininity, and of "exotic" and oriental cultures. This collection should therefore be of involvement to scholars and students of the history of fine art, literature, social history, cultural studies and women's studies.
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Fine art & Compages Library (Bowes)

  • I͡Azyk i kulʹtura v Rossii XVIII veka. English
  • Zhivov, V. Yard.
  • Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2009.
Description
Volume — xvii, 506 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary
  • Introduction: Bug in the Prehistory of the New Type of Russian Literary Language
  • The Petrine Language Reform: The Linguistic & Cultural Situation of the Petrine Era
  • The First of Normalisation of the New Literary Language: The Formulation of Linguistie Theories & Literary Exercise
  • The Changed Conception of the Literary Linguistic communication: The "Slavenorossiiskii Linguistic communication" & the Synthesis of Cultural & Linguistic Traditions
  • The New Cultural Differentiation: Linguistic Purity every bit an Ideological Category
  • Alphabetize.
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"Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia" is one of the most important studies e'er published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the germination of a modern secular culture, and "Language and Civilisation" traces the growth of a vernacular language from the 'hybrid Slavonic' of the late seventeenth century through the debates between 'archaists and innovators' of the early nineteenth century. Zhivov's study is an essential piece of work on the genesis of modern Russian civilization; the aim of this translation is to make it bachelor to historians and students of Russian culture.
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  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Book — 1 online resources (xi, 277 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
Summary
  • 1. Distributed noesis and the humanities / Miranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler, Mark Sprevak
  • 2. Introduction. I. Distributed noesis in Enlightenment and Romantic studies : an overview / George Rousseau
  • II. Distributed cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic studies : our book / Miranda Anderson
  • 3. Barthold Heinrich Brockes and distributed noesis : the delicate flux of world and spirit / Charlotte Lee
  • 4. Wordsworth, Keats and cognitive spaces of empathy in Endymion / Renee Harris
  • five. Embodied cognition in Berkeley and Kant : the trunk'south own space / Jennifer Mensch
  • half dozen. Is Laurence Sterne's protagonist Tristram Shandy embodied, enacted or extended? / George Rousseau
  • 7. Enacting the absolute : subject-object relations in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's theory of knowledge / Lisa Ann Robertson
  • viii. Cerebral scaffolding, Aids to Reflection / John Savarese
  • 9. The cocky in the history of distributed cognition : a view from the history of reading / Elspeth Jajdelska
  • 10. Distributed cognition and women writers' representation of theatre in eighteenth-century England : "Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind" / Ros Ballaster
  • 11. The literary designer environments of eighteenth-century Jesuit poetics / Karin Kukkonen
  • 12. Blake and the mark of the cognitive : notes towards the appearance of the sceptical subject / Richard C. Sha
  • thirteen. Eighteenth-century antiquity : extended, embodied, enacted / Helen Slaney.

Revitalising our reading of 18th century works specifically in the fields of the history of the volume, literary studies, material culture, art history, philosophy, technology, science and medicine, this book brings recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to conduct on the distributed nature of cognition.

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  • Newark : University of Delaware Printing ; London : Associated University Presses, c2001.
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Volume — 162 p. : sick. ; 29 cm.
Summary

This study joins the resurgent scholarship presently redressing the neglect of eighteenth century visual civilization since the offset of the twentieth century. This book offers nine contextual and cantankerous-disciplinary essays that appoint with a rich panapoly of discourses ranging from fine art criticism to biography, to collecting and the fine art market, to art theory and exercise and the institutions that shaped them, to beauty and way, sociopolitical and philosophical issues, gender studies, patronage, iconography, and impress culture.
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Art & Compages Library (Bowes)

  • Liverpool, United Kingdom : Liverpool University Printing on behalf of the Voltaire Foundation, 2020
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Volume — xvii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
  • List of figures Acknowledgements Melissa Percival - Introduction Emmanuel Faure-Carricaburu - The fantasy figures of Jean-Baptiste Santerre and the limits of generic frameworks of interpretation Christophe Guillouet - The Parisian world of printmaking at the heart of the invention of a genre? Poilly, Courtin and Bonnart'due south fantaisies (1713-1728) John Chu - Windows of opportunity: the French fantasy figure and the spirit of enterprise in early on-eighteenth-century Europe Martin Postle - Modelling for the fancy motion-picture show in eighteenth-century England Benedicte Miyamoto - The influence of drawing manuals on the British practice and reception of fancy pictures Guillaume Faroult - A galant fantasy: Fragonard's fantasy figures and The Music lesson in relation to Van Dyck, Watteau and Carle Vanloo Pierre-Henri Biger - Fans, fantasy and fancy Melissa Percival - Fancy equally a mode of consumption Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding - 'A butterfly supporting an elephant': chinoiserie, fantaisie and 'the luxuriance of fancy' Laurent Chatel - The garden as capriccio: the hortulan pleasures of imagination and virtuality Beatrice Laurent - Grand Bout capricci Xavier Cervantes - Venetian reminiscences and cultural hybridity in Canaletto's English-catamenia capricci and vedute Adrian Fernandez Almoguera - From the private cabinet to the suburban villa: caprices and fantasies in eighteenth-century Madrid Andrew Schulz - Satire and fantasy in Goya'south Caprichos Alice Labourg - 'Fancy paints with hues unreal': pictorial fantasy and literary cosmos in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novels Summaries List of contributors Bibliography Index.
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Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic want, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term, signifying excess, oddness and irrationality, liable to offend taste, reason and morals. This collection of essays foregrounds fancy - and its close synonym, caprice - as a distinct strand of the imagination in the catamenia. As a prevalent, coherent and enduring concept in aesthetics and visual culture, information technology deserves a more prominent identify in scholarly agreement than information technology has hitherto occupied. Fancy is hither understood every bit a blazon of creative output that deviated from rules and relished artistic freedom. It was also a mode of audition response, entailing a high degree of imaginative date with playful, quirky artworks, generating pleasance, desire or feet. Emphasizing commonalities between visual productions in different media from diverse locations, the authors interrogate and celebrate the expressive freedom of fancy in European visual civilisation. Topics include: the seductive fictions of the fancy picture, Fragonard and galanterie, fancy in drawing manuals, pattern books and pop prints, fans and fancy goods, chinoiserie, backlog and virtuality in garden design, Canaletto's British 'capricci', urban design in Madrid, and Goya'southward 'Caprichos'.
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Dark-green Library

  • Berry, Christopher J.
  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univversity Press, ©1997.
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Volume — 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages)
Summary
  • The Enlightenment and Scotland
  • order and the critique of individualism
  • science, explanation and history
  • social diversity
  • social history
  • commercial history
  • social values
  • reading the Scottish enlightenment.
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David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar, James Dunbar and Gilbert Stuart were at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment thought. This introductory survey offers the student a clear, accessible interpretation and synthesis of the social thought of these historically significant thinkers. Organised thematically, information technology takes the student through their accounts of social institutions, their critique of individualism, their methodology, their views of progress and of moral and cultural values. By taking man sociality equally their premise, the book shows how they produced important analyses of historical change, politics and morality, together with an cess of their ain commercial club.
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  • Berry, Christopher J.
  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ. Press, c1997.
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Book — xii, 228 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • The Enlightenment and Scotland
  • society and the critique of individualism
  • science, caption and history
  • social diversity
  • social history
  • commercial history
  • social values
  • reading the Scottish enlightenment.
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David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar, James Dunbar and Gilbert Stuart were at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment idea. This introductory survey offers the student a clear, attainable estimation and synthesis of the social idea of these historically significant thinkers. Organised thematically, it takes the student through their accounts of social institutions, their critique of individualism, their methodology, their views of progress and of moral and cultural values. Past taking human being sociality every bit their premise, the volume shows how they produced important analyses of historical alter, politics and morality, together with an assessment of their own commercial lodge.
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Green Library

  • Farnham, Surrey, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014.
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Book — 1 online resource
Summary
  • Contents: Introduction: Peregrine things: rethinking the global in 18th-century studies, Ileana Baird
  • Through the prism of matter theory: new approaches to the 18th-century globe of objects, Christina Ionescu. Role I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques: Caution, contents may be hot: a cultural anatomy of the tasse trembleuse, Christine A. Jones
  • Cultural currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the cloth shape of 18th-century celebrity, Kevin Bourque
  • Feather cloaks and English collectors: Cook'south voyages and the objects of the museum, Sophie Thomas
  • Imagining Ancient Egypt as the arcadian self in 18th-century Europe, Kevin M. McGeough. Part 2 Under Eastern Optics: Garments, Portraits, Books: Frills and perils of fashion: politics and civilisation of the 18th-century Russian court through the eyes of La Mode, Victoria Ivleva
  • From Russian federation with dearest: souvenirs and political alliance in Martha Wilmot'south The Russian Journals, Pamela Buck
  • `The battle of the books' in Catherine the Great's Russia: from a jousting tournament to a tavern brawl, Rimma Garn. Function III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps: From Peruvian gold to British Guinea: tropicopolitanism and myths of origin in Charles Johnstone's Chrysal, Mauricio E. Martinez
  • Eating turtle, eating the world: comestible things in the 18th-century, Krystal McMillen
  • The fur parasol: masculine dress, prosthetic skins, and the making of the English umbrella in Robinson Crusoe, Irene Fizer
  • Terra Incognita on maps of 18th-century Spanish America: commodification, consumption and the transition from inaccessible to public space, Lauren Beck. Function IV Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects: (Re-)appropriating trinkets: how to acculturate Polynesia with a jack-in-the-box, Laure Marcellesi
  • Images of exotic objects in the Abbe Prevost'due south Histoire Generale des Voyages, Antoine Eche
  • Souvenirs of the Due south Seas: objects of imperial critique in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Jessica Durgan
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.
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  • Introduction: Peregrine Things: Rethinking the Global in Eighteenth-Century Studies Ileana Baird Introduction: Through the Prism of Thing Theory: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century Earth of Objects Christina Ionescu Function I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques
  • 1 Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse Trembleuse Christine A. Jones
  • 2 Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity Kevin Bourque
  • iii Feather Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook'southward Voyages and the Objects of the Museum Sophie Thomas
  • 4 Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century Europe Kevin M. McGeough Function II Nether Eastern Optics: Garments, Portraits, Books
  • 5 Frills and Perils of Manner: Politics and Civilisation of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Court through the Eyes of La Manner Victoria Ivleva
  • 6 From Russia with Love: Souvenirs and Political Brotherhood in Martha Wilmot'south The Russian Journals Pamela Cadet
  • 7 "The Battle of the Books" in Catherine the Great's Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern Brawl Rimma Garn Function III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps
  • 8 From Peruvian Gilded to British Republic of guinea: Tropicopolitanism and Myths of Origin in Charles Johnstone'south Chrysal Mauricio Due east. Martinez
  • 9 Eating Turtle, Eating the Earth: Alimentary Things in the Eighteenth Century Krystal McMillen
  • 10 The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe Irene Fizer
  • 11 Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodification, Consumption and the Transition from Inaccessible to Public Space Lauren Beck Part Iv Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects
  • 12 (Re-)Appropriating Trinkets: How to Civilize Polynesia with a Jack-in-the-Box Laure Marcellesi
  • 13 Images of Exotic Objects in the Abbe Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages Antoine Eche
  • 14 Souvenirs of the South Seas: Objects of Imperial Critique in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Jessica Durgan.
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Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to man subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like across British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors depict their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such every bit thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our agreement of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a detail geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this drove draws attending to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-affair else when it is placed in a new locale.
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  • Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2013]
Description
Book — xiii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary
  • Introduction: Peregrine Things: Rethinking the Global in Eighteenth-Century Studies Ileana Baird Introduction: Through the Prism of Thing Theory: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century Earth of Objects Christina Ionescu Part I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques
  • ane Caution, Contents May Exist Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse Trembleuse Christine A. Jones
  • 2 Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century Glory Kevin Bourque
  • iii Plumage Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook'due south Voyages and the Objects of the Museum Sophie Thomas
  • 4 Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century Europe Kevin M. McGeough Part Ii Under Eastern Optics: Garments, Portraits, Books
  • 5 Frills and Perils of Fashion: Politics and Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Courtroom through the Eyes of La Way Victoria Ivleva
  • 6 From Russia with Dearest: Souvenirs and Political Brotherhood in Martha Wilmot's The Russian Journals Pamela Buck
  • 7 "The Battle of the Books" in Catherine the Dandy's Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern Brawl Rimma Garn Part III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps
  • 8 From Peruvian Gold to British Guinea: Tropicopolitanism and Myths of Origin in Charles Johnstone'south Chrysal Mauricio E. Martinez
  • 9 Eating Turtle, Eating the Globe: Alimentary Things in the Eighteenth Century Krystal McMillen
  • x The Fur Parasol: Masculine Wearing apparel, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English language Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe Irene Fizer
  • xi Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodification, Consumption and the Transition from Inaccessible to Public Space Lauren Beck Part 4 Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects
  • 12 (Re-)Appropriating Trinkets: How to Civilize Polynesia with a Jack-in-the-Box Laure Marcellesi
  • xiii Images of Exotic Objects in the Abbe Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages Antoine Eche
  • fourteen Souvenirs of the S Seas: Objects of Imperial Critique in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Jessica Durgan.
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  • Contents: Introduction: Peregrine things: rethinking the global in 18th-century studies, Ileana Baird
  • Through the prism of affair theory: new approaches to the 18th-century earth of objects, Christina Ionescu. Function I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques: Caution, contents may exist hot: a cultural beefcake of the tasse trembleuse, Christine A. Jones
  • Cultural currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the material shape of 18th-century celebrity, Kevin Bourque
  • Feather cloaks and English language collectors: Melt's voyages and the objects of the museum, Sophie Thomas
  • Imagining Aboriginal Arab republic of egypt equally the arcadian self in 18th-century Europe, Kevin M. McGeough. Part II Under Eastern Optics: Garments, Portraits, Books: Frills and perils of style: politics and culture of the 18th-century Russian court through the eyes of La Mode, Victoria Ivleva
  • From Russia with dearest: souvenirs and political alliance in Martha Wilmot'southward The Russian Journals, Pamela Buck
  • `The battle of the books' in Catherine the Corking's Russia: from a jousting tournament to a tavern ball, Rimma Garn. Part III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Nutrient, Accessories, Maps: From Peruvian gilded to British Guinea: tropicopolitanism and myths of origin in Charles Johnstone's Chrysal, Mauricio E. Martinez
  • Eating turtle, eating the world: comestible things in the 18th-century, Krystal McMillen
  • The fur parasol: masculine apparel, prosthetic skins, and the making of the English language umbrella in Robinson Crusoe, Irene Fizer
  • Terra Incognita on maps of 18th-century Castilian America: commodification, consumption and the transition from inaccessible to public space, Lauren Brook. Function IV Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects: (Re-)appropriating trinkets: how to civilize Polynesia with a jack-in-the-box, Laure Marcellesi
  • Images of exotic objects in the Abbe Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages, Antoine Eche
  • Souvenirs of the Due south Seas: objects of purple critique in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver'south Travels, Jessica Durgan
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.
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Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to homo subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked similar beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as affair theory or fabric and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a detail geographical expanse, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this drove draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.
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  • Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge Academy Printing, 2009.
Description
Book — xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • Introduction: the Indian Atlantic Tim Fulford and Kevin Hutchings
  • one. The site of the struggle: colonialism, violence, and the convict body Robbie Richardson
  • 2. 'I shall tear off their scalps, and brand cups of their skulls': American Indians in the eighteenth-century British press Troy Bickham
  • 3. Savages and men of feeling: North American Indians in Adam Smith'due south The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Henry Mackenzie's The Man of the Earth Lise Sorenson
  • 4. Sir William Johnson's interest: Indian country and transatlantic power Alan Taylor
  • 5. Representatives and representation: Southern Indians in eighteenth-century Britain Stephanie Pratt
  • 6. 'And the truest schools for civilisation are the forests of America': John O'Keeffe's The Basket Maker and Robert Bage'due south Hermsprong Helen Carr
  • 7. Theory and feel: Peter Fidler and the Transatlantic Indian Ted Binnema
  • 8. The sound of the shaman: scientists and Indians in the Chill Tim Fulford
  • ix. William Wordsworth, William Cullen Bryant, and the poetics of American Indian removal Joel Step
  • ten. 'The Nobleness of the Hunter's Deeds': British Romanticism, Christianity, and Ojibwa culture in George Copway'due south Recollections of a Forest Life Kevin Hutchings
  • 11. The savage tour: Indian functioning across the Atlantic Joshua David Bellin
  • Index.
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Investigating a transatlantic civilisation that flourished in Swell United kingdom and North America between 1750 and 1850, this drove explains how circuitous relationships between Britons, Native Americans and Anglo-Americans shaped the literature and history of the age. This shaping function has all too often been ignored or misconstrued past literary critics and historians. The book's chapters examine literary texts, travel accounts, traders' memoirs, historical documents, captivity narratives, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and visual arts. Its contributors chart the rising and fall of mixed communities living on the margins of white and Indian settlements, examining the role of 'cultural brokers' who used their expertise in both white and Indian cultures to mediate between them. Featuring contributions by some of the leading literary critics and historians currently working in the areas of Romantic Studies, American and Canadian Studies, and Native American Studies, this book sets a new agenda for thinking about transatlantic cultural relations.
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Green Library

  • Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland, [2020]
Description
Book — xiv, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
  • 1. Situating Psychopharmacology in Literature and Culture
  • Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer South. Henke
  • I. Drugs and Genre
  • two. Historicising Keats' Opium Imagery through Neoclassical Medical and Literary Discourses
  • Octavia Cox
  • 3. "Grief'due south comforter, Joy's guardian, good King Poppy!": Opium and Victorian Poetry
  • Irmtraud Huber
  • four. Dangerous Literary Substances: Discourses of Drugs and Dependence in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel Debates
  • Sarah Fruhwirth
  • II. Rethinking the Pharmacological Body: Drugs and the Borders of the Human
  • five. Blurring Plant and Homo Boundaries: Erasmus Darwin'south The Loves of the Plants
  • C. A. Vaughn Cross
  • vi. Pharmacokinetics and Opium-Eating: Metabolites, Stomach Aches and the Afterlife of De Quincey's Addiction
  • Hannah Markley
  • 7. A Posthumanist Arroyo to Agency in De Quincey'southward Confessions
  • Anna Rowntree
  • Three. The Cultural Politics of Known Drug Effects
  • 8. Reading De Quinceyan Rhetoric Against the Grain: An Actor-Network-Theory Approach
  • Anuj Gupta
  • 9. Claret Streams, Cash Flows and Circulations of Desire: Psychopharmacological Knowledge About Opium in Nineteenth-Century Women's Fiction
  • Nadine Boehm-Schnitker
  • 10. The Indeterminate Pharmacology of Absinthe in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Beyond
  • Vanessa Herrmann
  • IV. Historicizing the Prescription: Medication and Self-Medication
  • 11. "She furnishes the fan and the lavender water": Nervous Distress, Female Healers and Jane Austen'due south Herbal Medicine
  • Rebecca Spear
  • 12. "When poor mama long restless lies, / She drinks the poppy's juice": Opium and Gender in British Romantic Literature
  • Joseph Crawford
  • 13. Middlemarch and Medical Practice in the Regency Era: From "Bottles of Stuff" to the Clinical Gaze
  • Bjoern Bosserhoff .
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This drove of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts. Covering several genres, such as novels, poetry, autobiography and not-fiction, individual essays provide insights on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century understandings of drug furnishings of opium, alcohol and many other plant-based substances. Contributors consider both gimmicky and recent medical knowledge in order to contextualise and illuminate understandings of how drugs were utilised as stimulants, as relaxants, for pleasure, every bit pain relievers and for other purposes. Chapters besides examine the novelty of experimentations of drugs in conversation with the way literary texts incorporate them, highlighting the importance of literary and cultural texts for addressing ethical questions.
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  • Russell, Tilden A., author.
  • Newark : University of Delware Press, [2018]
Description
Book — xxi, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1: Anatomy of a Dedication: Gottfried Taubert, His Dedicatee, and the Feuillet Analogy Affiliate ii: Taubert in Danzig, and the German Reception of the Choregraphie Chapter 3: In Defence of Behr: Taubert's Contemporaries Revisited Affiliate iv:Concordance of German language Trip the light fantastic Treatises, 1703-1717 Chapter 5: Feuillet, Taubert, Philipp Gumpenhueber, and the Spread of Beauchamps-Feuillet Notation
  • Chapter 6: Trip the light fantastic Theory in Germany and England, 1703-1721
  • Postscript: Kleist's "UEber das Marionettentheater"
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Nearly that Author.
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This book is about the intersection of two evolving dance-historical realms--theory and practice--during the first two decades of the eighteenth century. France was the source of works on notation, choreography, and repertoire that dominated European dance practise until the 1780s. While these French inventions were welcomed and used in Deutschland, German dance writers responded past producing an important body of work on trip the light fantastic toe theory. This volume examines consequences in Germany of this asymmetrical confrontation of dance perspectives. Between 1703 and 1717 in Germany a coherent theory of trip the light fantastic toe was postulated that called itself dance theory, comprehended why information technology is a theory, and clearly, rationally, distinguished itself from practice. This flowering of dance-theoretical writing was contemporaneous with the appearance of Beauchamps-Feuillet note in the Choregraphie of Raoul Auger Feuillet (Paris, 1700, 1701). Beauchamps-Feuillet notation was the platonic written representation of the dance style known as la belle danse and proficient in both the ballroom and the theater. Its publication enabled the spread of belle danse to the French provinces and internationally. This spread encouraged the publication of new applied works (manuals, choreographies, recueils) on how to brand steps and how to trip the light fantastic toe electric current dances, as well as new dance treatises, in different languages. The Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, past Gottfried Taubert (Leipzig, 1717), includes a translated edition of Feuillet's Choregraphie. In the present volume, Chapters 1, 2, and 5 have to practise with how Taubert and his contemporary German authors of dance treatises (Samuel Rudolph Behr, Johann Pasch, Louis Bonin) became familiar with Beauchamps-Feuillet notation and acknowledged the Choregraphie in their own work, and how Taubert'southward translation of the Choregraphie spread its influence northward and eastward in Europe. Chapters 3 and 4 examine the personal and literary interrelationships betwixt the German writers on dance betwixt 1703 and 1717. Affiliate 6 examines these writers' invention of a theoria of dance as a counterbalance to trip the light fantastic praxis, compares their dance-theoretical ideas with those of John Weaver in England, and assimilates them all in a cohesive and inclusive description of trip the light fantastic toe theory in Europe by 1721.
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  • Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1990.
Description
Volume — i online resource (xii, 193 pages)
Summary
  • Literature or metaliterature? : thoughts on traditional literary study / Donald Greene
  • Doing without theory : a defense of cultural history / Morris R. Brownell
  • Johnson's voluntary agents / Richard B. Schwartz
  • Historical criticism, hypotheses, and eighteenth-century studies : the instance for induction and neutral cognition / Howard D. Weinbrot
  • The discourses of criticism and the discourses of history in the Restoration and early on eighteenth century / Maximillian Novak
  • The novel and the contexts of soapbox / J. Paul Hunter
  • Scholarly texts : an unapologetic defence force / John H. Middendorf
  • Reading eighteenth-century plays / Shirley Strum Kenny
  • Causes and consequences in historical scholarship / Gwin J. Kolb.
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