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  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 30)

    by Flavio Gregori, Steven Minuk, Andie Barrow, Pamela F. Phillips, Ross W. Beales, Jr., Yvonne Fuentes, Melanie Hayes, Stephanie Koscak, Corey Risinger, Susan Spencer, Lynn Festa, Youenhee Kho, Duane Coltharp, Christopher D. Johnson, Courtney A. Hoffman, Ashley Bender, Donald W. Nichol, Christopher Vilmar, Michael J. Mulryan, Victoria Barnett-Woods, Anthony W Lee ...
    Series series 1650-1850
    Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement.The ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 26)

    by Norbert Col, Andrew Connell, Taylor Corse, Matthew Davis, Michael Edson, Melvyn New, Mark A. Pedreira, Linda L. Reesman, Adam Rounce, Robin Runia, Jacob Sider Jost, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Ashley Bender, John Burke, Greg Clingham, Gloria Eive, Sören Hammerschmidt, Malcolm Jack, Christopher Johnson, Robin Mills, John Sitter, Paul deGategno ...
    Series Book 26 - 1650-1850
    Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Defining the World

    The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

    by Henry Hitchings ...
    "[A] marvelous account" of Johnson's towering achievement, nearly a decade of labor and linguistic fact-finding, presented by "a buoyant, zestful writer" ( The Boston Globe).By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • Wollstonecraft

    Philosophy, Passion, and Politics

    by Sylvana Tomaselli ...
    A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft’s thought is possible only through a more comprehensive appreciation of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

    Edited by Craig Dionne, Steve Mentz ...
    "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe'

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe's novel, exploring the reasons for its immense popularity in Britain and in its colonies in America and in ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

    Edited by Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Edited by Greg Clingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by J. A. Downie ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do ... Read more

    $143.99 USD