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  • Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

    The Genius of Every Place

    by Kevin L. Cope, Samara Anne Cahill, Stephen Clarke, Greg Clingham, Bärbel Czennia, Stephen DeMaria Jr., Timothy Erwin, Stephen Karian, A. W. Lee, Maximillian Novak0, David Nunnery1, Philip Smallwood2, David Venturo3, Lance Wilcox4, James Engell5 ...
    Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Paper, Ink, and Achievement

    Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship

    by James E May, Leah Orr, J. T. Scanlan, Susan Spencer, Linda V. Troost, Manuel Schonhorn, Brett C. McInelly, David Venturo, Philip Smallwood ...
    During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe” initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Age of Johnson

    A Scholarly Annual (Volume 24)

    by Stephen Clarke, Marcus Walsh, Matthew Davis, Anthony W. Lee, Paul Tankard, Susan Kubica Howard, Suzanna Geiser, Peter Briggs, David Venturo, Eric Bennett, John Richetti, Jacob Sider Jost, Robert DeMaria, Joseph F. Bartolomeo, Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock ...
    Series Book 24 - The Age of Johnson
    The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative newcomers. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    by Kenneth R. Johnston ...
    Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars against republican France. Liberal young writers and intellectuals whose enthusiasm for the American and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770

    by Ashley Marshall ...
    An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceIn The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective is not to recuperate particular minor works ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

    Edited by Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary ... Read more

    $31.99 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

  • At Vanity Fair

    From Bunyan to Thackeray

    by Kirsty Milne, Sharon Achinstein ...
    At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation and influence, traces the fictional representation of Vanity Fair over three centuries from John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), to ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

    Edited by Paddy Bullard, James McLaverty ...
    Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Romantic Readers

    The Evidence of Marginalia

    by H. J. Jackson ...
    When readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves-what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Samuel Johnson in Context

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offering readers a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century life and culture as it relates to his work. Short, lively and eminently readable chapters illuminate not only Johnson's own life, writings and career, but the literary, critical, journalistic, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD