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  • World of Elizabeth Inchbald

    Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Daniel J. Ennis, E. Joe Johnson, Misty G. Anderson, Martha F. Bowden, Mita Choudhury, Robert Craig, W.B. Gerard, Randa Graves, Claudia Thomas Kairoff0, Cynthia J. Lowenthal1, Heather McPherson2, Hugh Reid3, John Vance4, Calhoun Winton5, Annibel Jenkins6, Paula R. Backscheider7, Don Russ8 ...
    This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the Restoration to the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint

    A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France

    by Mita Choudhury ...
    This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early modern France, the Cadière affair was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time when ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain

    An Archaeology of Empire

    by Mita Choudhury ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an allegiance to the culture which literary production engenders, this book describes how British identity emerges not despite of but due to its fluid, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint

    A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France

    by Mita Choudhury ...
    This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early modern France, the Cadière affair was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time when ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 27)

    by Samara Anne Cahill, Chris Barrett, Mita Choudhury, Matthew Goldmark, Jennifer L. Hargrave, Betty Joseph, Billie Lythberg, David Mazella, Su Fang Ng0, Felicity Nussbaum1, Daniel O'Quinn2, Elizabeth Sauer3, Ana Schwartz4, Brandie Siegfried5, Daniel Vitkus6, Lisa Walters7, Chi-ming Yang8, Andrew Black9, Erica Johnson Edwards0, James Hamby1, Stephanie Howard-Smith2, Anthony W. Lee3, Daniel Livesay4, Seow-Chin Ong5, Linda L. Reesman6, Gefen Bar-On Santor7, Jacqy Sharpe8 ...
    Series Book 27 - 1650-1850
    Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

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    This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon ... Read more

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  • Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania in Britain

    1770-1823

    by Ruth Scobie ...
    At the end of the eighteenth century metropolitan Britain was entranced by stories emanating from the furthest edge of its nascent empire. In the experience of eighteenth-century Britain, Oceania was both a real place, evidencedby the journals of adventurers like Joseph Banks, the voyage books of Captain James Cook and the growing collection of artefacts and curiosities in the British Museum, and ... Read more

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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

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  • Robespierre

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Peter McPhee ...
    For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793–94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life ... Read more

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  • The Reason of Things

    Living with Philosophy

    by Prof A.C. Grayling ...
    The follow-up to THE MEANING OF THINGS which continues A.C. Grayling's philosophical journey through lifeThe most important question we can ask ourselves is: what kind of life is the best? This is the same as asking: How does one give meaning to one's life? How can one justify one's existence and make it worthwhile?How does one make experience valuable, and keep growing and learning in the process ... Read more

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    The French Revolution

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    A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globeThe French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth ... Read more

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  • What Is History, Now?

    by Suzannah Lipscomb, Helen Carr ...
    This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and emerging voices, this is the history book we need NOW.WHAT ... Read more

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