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Book Synopsis Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain by : Pat Rogers
Download or read book Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain written by Pat Rogers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content, sources, form, and historical significance of one of the foremost books written about Britain during the eighteenth century. Pat Rogers' study offers fresh interdisciplinary insight for both new readers and Defoe students.
Book Synopsis A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by : Daniel Defoe
Download or read book A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain written by Daniel Defoe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world. By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.
Book Synopsis A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by : Daniel Defoe
Download or read book A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain written by Daniel Defoe and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 1971 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between these covers is a whole historical world to travel: a careful abridgment of the great Defoe's classic circuit of England, first published in three volumes in 1724-26, complemented by a wealth of contemporary paintings, sketches, and engravings of places he visited, industrial processes, activities and events he described, and people he knew. Includes an introduction and notes to the text. Edited by P.N. Furbank, W.R. Owens, and A.J. Coulson. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe by : Nicholas Seager
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe written by Nicholas Seager and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position--in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook. The Handbook ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works.
Book Synopsis The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by : Robert McCrum
Download or read book The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time written by Robert McCrum and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Book Synopsis Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 by : Daniel Defoe
Download or read book Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 written by Daniel Defoe and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England by : Daniel Defoe
Download or read book Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England written by Daniel Defoe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic travelogue by Daniel Defoe contain intimate portraits of the towns throughout the Eastern counties of England.
Book Synopsis The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by : Daniel Defoe
Download or read book The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) written by Daniel Defoe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)" by Daniel Defoe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain. Divided Into Circuits Or Journeys. Giving a Particular and Entertaining Account of Whatever Is Curious, and Worth Observation; ... by a Gentleman. ... the Third Edition of 4; Volume 1 by : DANIEL. DEFOE
Download or read book A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain. Divided Into Circuits Or Journeys. Giving a Particular and Entertaining Account of Whatever Is Curious, and Worth Observation; ... by a Gentleman. ... the Third Edition of 4; Volume 1 written by DANIEL. DEFOE and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T070851 A gentleman = Daniel Defoe. London: printed for J. Osborn, S. Birt, D. Browne, J. Hodges, A. Millar, J. Whiston, and J. Robinson, 1742. 4v.; 12°
Book Synopsis When the Waves Ruled Britannia by : Jonathan Scott
Download or read book When the Waves Ruled Britannia written by Jonathan Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military security? How did geographical ideas inform the construction of English – and then British – political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for political purposes, Jonathan Scott's ambitious and interdisciplinary study traces the development of the idea of Britain as an island nation, state and then empire from 1500 to 1800, through literature, philosophy, history, geography and travel writing. One argument advanced in the process concerns the maritime origins, nature and consequences of the English revolution. This is the first general study to examine changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context. Offering a new perspective on the nature of early modern Britain, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the period.
Book Synopsis A Tour Thro' London about the Year 1725 by : Daniel Defoe
Download or read book A Tour Thro' London about the Year 1725 written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain. Divided Into Circuites Or Journeys. Giving a Particular and Entertaining Accout of Whatever Is Curious and Worth Observation; ... the Fourth Edition. 1748 of 4; Volume 3 by : Daniel Defoe
Download or read book A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain. Divided Into Circuites Or Journeys. Giving a Particular and Entertaining Accout of Whatever Is Curious and Worth Observation; ... the Fourth Edition. 1748 of 4; Volume 3 written by Daniel Defoe and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T070852 A gentleman = Daniel Defoe. London: printed for S. Birt, T. Osborne, D. Browne, J. Hodges, J. Osborn, A. Millar, and J. Robinson, 1748. 4v.; 12°
Book Synopsis An Economic History of Modern Britain ...: The early railway age, 1820-1850 by : Sir John Harold Clapham
Download or read book An Economic History of Modern Britain ...: The early railway age, 1820-1850 written by Sir John Harold Clapham and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 by : Daniel Daniel Defoe
Download or read book Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 written by Daniel Daniel Defoe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1660, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigour. It is said that only the bible has been printed in more languages than Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is also noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel. He was extremely prolific and a very versatile writer, producing several hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism though was made bankrupt on more on one occasion and usually mired in debt. In later life Defoe was often most seen on Sundays when bailiffs and the like could legally make no move on him. Allegedly it was whilst hiding from creditors that he died on April 24th, 1731. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London.
Book Synopsis The Wreckage of Intentions by : David Alff
Download or read book The Wreckage of Intentions written by David Alff and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"—a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future—that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety of scientific, technological, and intellectual interventions intended for the betterment of England. But for all the fanfare surrounding them, few such schemes actually materialized, leaving scores of defunct visions, from Defoe's own attempt to farm cats for perfume, to Mary Astell's proposal to charter a college for women, to countless ventures for improving land, streamlining government, and inventing new consumer goods. Taken together, these failed plans form a compelling alternative history of a Britain that might have been. The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive and critical account of projects, exploring the historical memory surrounding these concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy. Using methods of literary analysis, David Alff shows how projects began as written proposals, circulated as print objects, spurred physical undertakings, and provoked responses in the realms of poetry, fiction, and drama. Mapping this process discloses the ways in which eighteenth-century authors applied their faculties of imagination to achieve finite goals and, in so doing, devised new ways of seeing the world through its future potential. Approaching old projects through the language, landscapes, data, and personas they left behind, Alff contends this vision was, and remains, vital to the functions of statecraft, commerce, science, religion, and literature.
Book Synopsis A General History of the Pyrates by : Daniel Defoe
Download or read book A General History of the Pyrates written by Daniel Defoe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-26 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century, this fascinating history by the author of Robinson Crusoe profiles the deeds of Edward (Blackbeard) Teach, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny, others.
Book Synopsis The Demography of Early Modern Towns by : Chris Galley
Download or read book The Demography of Early Modern Towns written by Chris Galley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a study of the demographic regime in towns and cities in England and elsewhere in Europe in the early-modern period (circa 1540 to circa 1700), this work examines academic debates about why urban demography appears to be radically different from that of rural areas. Much of the book's focus is on three sets of issues, the first of which concerns the relative paucity of information available about urban demography. This issue is addressed by means of a detailed case study of York, England's second city at that time, explaining how and why the individual components of the demographic regime changed, and how York's demography influenced and was influenced by its economy and society.
