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  • Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 2

    by Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Allan Ingram, David Walker, Anita O'Connell, Michelle Faubert ...
    As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Myth and (mis)information

    Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture

    Edited by Allan Ingram, Helen Williams, Clark Lawlor ...
    This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Depression and Melancholy, 1660–1800 vol 4

    by Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Allan Ingram, David Walker, Anita O'Connell, Michelle Faubert ...
    As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Depression and Melancholy, 1660–1800 vol 3

    by Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Allan Ingram, David Walker, Anita O'Connell, Michelle Faubert ...
    As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Depression and Melancholy, 1660–1800 vol 1

    by Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Allan Ingram, David Walker, Anita O'Connell, Michelle Faubert ...
    As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Joseph Conrad

    Selected Literary Criticism and The Shadow-Line

    by Joseph Conrad, Allan Ingram ...
    First Published in 1986. On 22 January 1910, after two years’ work on what he had intended as a break from Chance, Conrad finally finished the manuscript of Under Western Eyes. It had been begun, like many of his novels, as a short story, to be called simply ‘Razumov’, in which he would try ‘to capture the very soul of things Russian’ (Jean-Aubry, 1927, II, p. 64). Some 130,000 words later, Conrad ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Boswell and the Press

    Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell

    by Donald J. Newman, Paul Tankard, James J. Caudle, Terry Seymour, Celia Barnes, Allan Ingram, Jennifer Preston Wilson, Nigel Aston ...
    Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Gulliver's Travels

    by Jonathan Swift ...
    In this narrative of the gullible ship’s doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and giants, floating islands and talking horses. But through this fantastic journey, he also gave to literature an enduring model of mankind’s follies, vulnerabilities, vanities, and self-destructiveness. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

    Fashioning the Unfashionable

    Edited by Allan Ingram, Leigh Wetherall Dickson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating them to current ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse

    Order in Variety

    Edited by Allan Ingram, Joanna Fowler ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Madhouse of Language

    Writing and Reading Madness in the Eighteenth Century

    by Allan Ingram ...
    Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records and texts by mad writers. It presents a highly original account of the linguistic ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century

    Edited by John Baker, Marion Leclair, Allan Ingram ...
    Series Book 4 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
    The injunction, ‘Know thyself!’, resounding down the centuries, has never lost its appeal and urgency. The ‘self’ remains an abiding and universal concern, something at once intimate, indispensable and elusive; something we take for granted and yet remains difficult to pin down, describe or define. This volume of twelve essays explores how writers in different domains – philosophers and thinkers, ... Read more

    $93.59 USD