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Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 31)

by Kevin L. Cope, Samara Anne Cahill, Pat Rogers, Allison Muri, Duncan Samuel, Robert G. Walker, Anaclara Castro, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Leigh G. Dillard0, Daniel Crespo-Delgado1, Anne Betty Weinshenker2, Steff Nellis3, Christopher D. Johnson4, Kandice Sharren5, Donald W. Nichol6, William Stargard7, Malcolm Jack8, Heather Heckman-McKenna9, R.J.W. Mills0, Susan Spencer1, Anthony W Lee2 ...

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. Welcoming ... Read more

$115.19 USD

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. Welcoming
... Read more
Dark and Far

The Quest for the Seed of Life

by Christopher D. Johnson ...

A young boy is plunged into a world of magic and wonder as he attempts to cope with the loss of his father. With his friends at his side, Anubus must traverse the galaxy to find the legendary seed of life. If he and his friends fail, they face the ultimate price, death. Explore distant desert worlds filled with giant puppies, space pirates and evil dark overlords in this magical book of adventure. ... Read more

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A young boy is plunged into a world of magic and wonder as he attempts to cope with the loss of his father. With his friends at his side, Anubus must traverse the galaxy to find the legendary seed of life. If he and his friends fail, they face the ultimate price, death. Explore distant desert worlds filled with giant puppies, space pirates and evil dark overlords in this magical book of adventure.
... Read more
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

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
Beyond Sense and Sensibility

Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth

by Leslie A. Chilton, Timothy Erwin, Evan Gottlieb, Christopher D. Johnson, Heather King, Rhona Brown, James Noggle, Adrianne Wadewitz, Adam Rounce ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How ... Read more

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During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How
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Editing Lives

Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.

by Matthew Brack, Loren Rothschild, Thomas Kaminski, Peter Sabor, Gordon Turnbull, Jerry Beasley, Michael Bundock, Martine Watson Brownley, Leslie A. Chilton, Christopher D. Johnson, Walter H. Keithley, James E. May, Jennifer M. Santos, Stephen DeMaria Jr. ...

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and ... Read more

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Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and
... Read more
A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding

by Christopher D Johnson ...

Series series Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding provides the most complete discussion of Fielding’s works and career currently available. Tracing the development of Fielding’s artistic and instructive agendas from her earliest publications forward, Johnson presents a compelling portrait of a deeply read author who sought to claim a place within literary culture for women’s experiences. As a practical ... Read more

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A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding provides the most complete discussion of Fielding’s works and career currently available. Tracing the development of Fielding’s artistic and instructive agendas from her earliest publications forward, Johnson presents a compelling portrait of a deeply read author who sought to claim a place within literary culture for women’s experiences. As a practical
... Read more
1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)

by Deborah Kennedy, Angelina Dulong, Mona Scheuermann, Paul Tankard, Christina Ionescu, Leigh D. Dillard, Catherine J. Lewis Theobald, Jeanne M. Britton, Timothy Erwin, Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Ileana Baird, Yanzhang Cui, Duane Coltharp, Thomas Hothem, John C. Traver, Christopher Trigg, Paul deGategno, Courtney A. Hoffman, Elizabeth Kraft, John Knapp, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Susan Spencer, Greg Clingham, Christopher D. Johnson, Anthony W Lee, Leigh G. Dillard ...

Series Book 29 - 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. Welcoming ... Read more

$115.19 USD

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. Welcoming
... Read more
Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

by Martine Watson Brownley, Greg Clingham, Timothy Erwin, Christopher D. Johnson, Thomas Kaminski, Myron D. Yeager, O M Brack Jr., Martine W. Brownley ...

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting ... Read more

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As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting
... Read more
New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'

by Christopher D. Johnson, Paula R. Backscheider, Leslie A. Chilton, Robert A. Erikson, Susan K. Howard, Marta Kvande, James E. May, Melissa Mowry, Alexander Pettit, Charles E. Robinson, Mary Anne Schofield, Rivka Swenson, O M Brack Jr. ...

New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss ... Read more

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New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss
... Read more
Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images

by Christopher D. Johnson ...

Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with ... Read more

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The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with
... Read more
Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture

Volume 3. Travel as Resistance

Edited by Meredith A. Love, Christopher D. Johnson ...

Series series Carolina Currents
From the Piedmont to the Lowcountry, South Carolina is the site of countless engaging stories. The contributors to Carolina Currents share those stories, broadening our understanding of the state's unique and diverse histories and cultures. A venue for public-facing interdisciplinary scholarship, each volume presents a collection of essays that illuminate the complex interactions between the state ... Read more

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From the Piedmont to the Lowcountry, South Carolina is the site of countless engaging stories. The contributors to Carolina Currents share those stories, broadening our understanding of the state's unique and diverse histories and cultures. A venue for public-facing interdisciplinary scholarship, each volume presents a collection of essays that illuminate the complex interactions between the state
... Read more
Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture

Volume 2. Recovering Lost Stories

Edited by Christopher D. Johnson ...

Series series Carolina Currents
From the Piedmont to the Lowcountry, South Carolina is the site of countless engaging stories. The contributors to Carolina Currents share those stories, broadening our understanding of the state's unique and diverse histories and cultures. A venue for public-facing interdisciplinary scholarship, each volume presents a collection of essays that illuminates the complex interactions between the ... Read more

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From the Piedmont to the Lowcountry, South Carolina is the site of countless engaging stories. The contributors to Carolina Currents share those stories, broadening our understanding of the state's unique and diverse histories and cultures. A venue for public-facing interdisciplinary scholarship, each volume presents a collection of essays that illuminates the complex interactions between the
... Read more

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Editing Lives

A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding

1650-1850

Reconsidering Biography

New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images

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