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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

  • Louis Sébastien Mercier

    Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Michael J. Mulryan ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales

    Between Fact and Fiction

    by Rori Bloom, Léa Lebourg-Leportier, Claire Trevien ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an ... Read more

    $88.29 USD

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  • The Great Cat Massacre

    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    by Robert Darnton ...
    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... Read more

    $12.99 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

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  • 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

  • Enemies of the Enlightenment

    The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

    by Darrin M. McMahon ...
    Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while ... Read more

    $41.39 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

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  • The Bedroom

    An Intimate History

    by Michelle Perrot ...
    Translated by Lauren Elkin ...
    An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through todayThe winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the ... Read more

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  • 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