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Author : Sir Thomas Burnet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Thomas Burnet to George Duckett written by Sir Thomas Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009301969
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics including the first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe's epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters, headnotes and annotations explain each document's occasion, beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition, and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of Defoe's letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe's manuscript habits.
Author : Ernest Harold Pearce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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Author : John Matthews Manly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
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Author : Andrew Starkie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843832887
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Church of England and the Bangorian Controversy, 1716-1721 written by Andrew Starkie and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full account of the vital struggle for Church and State in England after the accession of George I.
Author : Geoffrey Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 082643407X
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book British Politics in the Age of Anne written by Geoffrey Holmes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Politics in the Age of Anne is a book that anyone with an interest in the period will wish to possess: completely authoritative, yet as attractive to the student and the general reader as to the specialist. The author has both revised the text and written a substantial new introduction to this edition. Geoffrey Holmes reveals how little the structure and contents of politics under Queen Anne had in common with the connexion-ridden scene of the mid-eighteenth century, as portrayed by Namier. He depicts a period of fierce and genuine party conflict, in which society at many levels was divided by great issues of principle and policy. Through frequent and hotly-contested elections and long parliamentary campaigns both Whigs and Tories enjoyed triumphs and suffered disasters. And while struggling against one another, each had to contend with internal factions and pressure-groups, the divisive thrust of personal ambitions and the hostility of the queen to single party rule. British Politics in the Age of Anne is more than a major work of analysis and a historiographical landmark. By liberal use of quotation, eye for detail, sense of atmosphere and vivid character sketches of both leading and lesser personae, Professor Holmes recreates the unique political life of the high Augustan age.
Author : Paul Baines
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444390082
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789 written by Paul Baines and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century
Author : Adrian Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429663358
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Making of Man-Midwifery written by Adrian Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published 1995 The Making of Man-Midwifery looks at how the eighteenth century witnessed a revolution in childbirth practices. By the last quarter of the century increasing numbers of babies were being delivered by men – a dramatic shift from the women-only ritual that had been standard throughout Western history. This authoritative and challenging work explains this transformation in medical practice and remarkable shift in gender relations. By tracing the actual development and transmission of the new midwifery skills through the period, the book addresses both technological and feminist arguments of the period. The study is distinctive in treating childbirth as both a bodily and a social event and in explaining how the two were intimately connected. Practical obstetrics is shown to have been shaped by the social relations surrounding deliveries, and specific techniques were associated with distinctive places and political allegiances. The books studies how increasing numbers emergent male-midwives had overtaken women in the skill of delivering children and how as such expectant mothers chose to use these male-midwives, thus heralding the growth of male-midwives in the period.
Author : P. J. Heslin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521851459
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Transvestite Achilles written by P. J. Heslin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the first book-length examination of Statius' unfinished epic, the Achilleid.
Author : Jo Willett
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526779390
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu written by Jo Willett and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography to look at the early feminist and radical Mary Wortley Montagu, who successfully introduced Britain to the inoculation against the smallpox virus. 300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living there as the wife of the British ambassador. She also knew that by inoculating - making her daughter the first person protected in the West - she would face opposition from doctors, politicians and clerics. Her courageous action eventually led to the eradication of smallpox and the prevention of millions of deaths. But Mary was more than a scientific campaigner. She mixed with the greatest politicians, writers, artists and thinkers of her day. She was also an important early feminist, writing powerfully and provocatively about the position of women. She was best friends with the poet Alexander Pope. They collaborated on a series of poems, which made her into a household name, an ‘It Girl.' But their friendship turned sour and he used his pen to vilify her publicly. Aristocratic by birth, Mary chose to elope with Edward Wortley Montagu, whom she knew she did not love, so as to avoid being forced into marrying someone else. In middle age, her marriage stale, she fell for someone young enough to be her son - and, unknown to her, bisexual. She set off on a new life with him abroad. When this relationship failed, she stayed on in Europe, narrowly escaping the coercive control of an Italian con man. After twenty-two years abroad, she returned home to London to die. The son-in-law she had dismissed as a young man had meanwhile become Prime Minister.
Author : Craig Bruce Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469638843
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book American Honor written by Craig Bruce Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans' ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society. Focusing his study primarily on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution—notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains. By also interweaving individuals and groups that have historically been excluded from the discussion of honor—such as female thinkers, women patriots, slaves, and free African Americans—Smith makes a broad and significant argument about how the Revolutionary era witnessed a fundamental shift in ethical ideas. This thoughtful work sheds new light on a forgotten cause of the Revolution and on the ideological foundation of the United States.
Author : Ragnhild Hatton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300212968
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book George I written by Ragnhild Hatton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic figure whose real character has long been concealed by anti-Hanoverian propaganda, George emerges in this groundbreaking biography as an impressive ruler who welcomed the responsibilities the accession brought him and set out to bring culture to what he considered the unsophisticated English nation. Ragnhild Hatton’s biography is the only comprehensive account of George’s life and reign. It draws on a wide range of archival sources in several languages to illuminate the fascinating details of George’s early life and dynastic crises, his plans and ambitions for the British nation, the impact of his rationalist ideas, and his accomplishments as king. The book also examines the king’s private life, his family relationships in both Prussia and England, his private interest in music and the arts, and the improvement of his British and Hanoverian properties.
Author : R.F. Brissenden
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442650818
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Eighteenth Century written by R.F. Brissenden and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1968-12-15 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies. The seminar at which they were presented was held to honour the memory of a literary scholar, David Nichol Smith. It is therefore understandable and fitting that the majority of the contributions should be concerned primarily with literature. History, art, and philosophy, however, are also dealt with; and the collection as a whole offers a widely ranging and illuminating survey of the period.
Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1639734708
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (397 download)
Download or read book The Courtiers written by Lucy Worsley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II . In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life. Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the King's Staircase of Kensington Palace-paintings you can see at the palace today-The Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter, a maid of honor with a secret marriage, a vice chamberlain with many vices, a bedchamber woman with a violent husband, two aging royal mistresses, and many more. The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III , and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty.
Author : Netta Murray Goldsmith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040287867
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Alexander Pope written by Netta Murray Goldsmith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Making use of the growing body of research in recent years on the nature of creativity, Netta Goldsmith here presents a new view of the famous poet whose personality has long frustrated scholars as elusive. Goldsmith tells the story of Pope's life so as to show the factors-personal and public, psychological and social-which shaped his character and enabled him to secure widespread recognition as a major poet. Discussions of significant works are integrated into the narrative covering main events and key relationships, as well as illustrating points made throughout about Pope's approach to his art. Among other things this book shows how vulnerable Pope felt as a Papist in a time of endemic Jacobite activity, and how his fear of possible prosecution for sedition determined much of his conduct and the way he shaped his career. Alexander Pope: The evolution of a poet not only provides a fresh perspective on Pope, but also on the very nature of literary creativity.
Author : James Edward Tobin
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780819601889
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background written by James Edward Tobin and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1967 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
