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  • Textual Vision

    Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture

    by Timothy Erwin ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, TextualVision explores the simultaneous rhetorical formation and empirical fragmentation of visual reading in enlightenment Britain. Beginning with an engaging treatment of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Timothy Erwin takes the reader on a guided tour of the pointed allusion, apt illustration, or the subtle appeal to the mind's eye within a wide ... Read more

    $52.69 USD

  • Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

    The Genius of Every Place

    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

    $109.39 USD

  • 1650-1850

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

    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

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  • Reconsidering Biography

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

    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

    $85.09 USD

  • Beyond Sense and Sensibility

    Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth

    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

    $44.59 USD

  • Dynamic Physical Education for Secondary School Students

    Dynamic Physical Education for Secondary School Students (DPE) continues its legacy as the go-to textbook for preparing future secondary physical educators. Now in its 10th edition, this trusted resource presents a standards-based approach to teaching physical education. DPE guides physical education teacher education (PETE) students through the process of creating a positive learning environment ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States

    by Erwin Timothy ...
    Prepare to venture into the shadows of America's modern-day haunted houses, where the living and the dead collide in mysterious and spine-chilling ways. Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States is an exploration of the paranormal encounters that lurk in the corners of today's society, transcending the boundaries of traditional ghost stories and offering a fresh perspective on the ... Read more

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  • The Bergdoll Boys

    America's Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers

    A biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century. Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Grover, the most notorious, is celebrated for his daring record ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Bergdoll Boys

    America's Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers

    Unabridged

    19 hours 12 min

    Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Then, just as Grover is trying to buy a bigger plane to set more records and attempt to fly to Europe a decade before Lindbergh, they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials. Running and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD