Product Description: Encounters, whether first or subsequent or whether cultural, economic, or ideological, mark the beginning of an acquaintance and measure both similarities and differences. What happens after an opening encounter is the topic of Citizens of the World: Adaptingin the Eighteenth Century...read more

Product Description: Contents I. Printing and Bibliographic Studies II. Historical, Social and Economic Studies III. Philosophy, Science and Religion IV. Fine Arts: Aesthetics; Architecture; Art; Culture Studies; Dance; Music; Opera; Theater V. Foreign Literatures and Languages: Iberian Literatures and Languages; French Literature and Language; German Literature and Language; Scandinavian Literatures and Languages; Slavic Literatures and Languages VI...read more

Product Description: British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century initiated a critique of human knowledge unrivaled in both its scope and its enthusiasm. Author Kevin L. Cope now attempts to provide a coherent, evocative account of explanatory rhetoric in early modern Britain...read more

Product Description: Contents I. Printing and Bibliographic Studies II. Historical, Social and Economic Studies III. Philosophy, Science and Religion IV. Fine Arts: Aesthetics; Architecture; Art; Culture Studies; Dance; Landscape and Garden Landscape; Music; Theater V...read more

Product Description: Scholars, librarians, students, and database vendors have all applauded the increase in access to rare, old, venerated, and obscure texts that has resulted from the rise of electronic resources. Almost everyone associated with any branch of cultural history has heard the claims about unlimited research opportunity and the rediscovery of overlooked sources...read more

Product Description: What was night in the eighteenth century? The most general answer, according to the essayists represented in this collection, is "activity," although "energy" or "purpose" might be closer to the mark. "Night" is here depicted as a perfect topic for the period under consideration: the "busy night" - the populous night - is preeminently an eighteenth-century phenomenon...read more

1650-1850: Ideas, Aethetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era takes a focused but multidisciplinary approach to the "long eighteenth century," the two hundred years during which the writers and artists explored, developed, and represented a complex program of modernization or "Enlightenment." Covering a period that begins with the revolutionary thought of Thomas Hobbes and the surprising establishment of a Commonwealth government and that ends with the careers of William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, 1650-1850 publishes essays treating the aesthetic and philosophical side of this period of deep social transformation. This annual includes studies on the literature, philosophy, theology, art, music, architecture, and personalities of the period. It publishes many essays on British topics but also includes studies from various cultures, from Vietnam and Romania to Peru and the arctic. It seeks to discover connections among the various arts and intellectual pursuits and also to provide a venue for specialized studies not suitable for less experimental journals. 1650-1850 always includes fifteen to twenty extended reviews, reviews that examine major scholarly studies and editions in detail and with robust honesty. Contents includes: Beverly Jerold, Dilettante and Amateur: Our Evolving Language Richard Sharp, Aspects of High Churchmanship in Eighteenth-Century England: Charles Wheatly (1686-1742) and the Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer James E. Evans, "The Splendour of Our Golden Age": The Duchess of Mazarin and Epicurean Voluptuousness in Late Stuart England Susan Lydon, Savage Europeans and Gentlemanly Savages: Capitalism and Blurred Identity in Robinson Crusoe Keely McCarthy, The Problem of Cultural Reproduction in Gulliver's Travels James E. May, Contemporary Reception and Reputation of Edward Young's Love of Fame Al Coppola, The Secret History of Eliza Haywood's Works: The Early Novel and the Book Trade Frieda Koeninger, Female, French, and Alone: The Case of Luisa de Dufressi before the Mexican Inquisition during the Times of Viceroy Bernardo de Galvez (Hero of the Battle of Baton Rouge and Other Notable Feats) James J. Kirschke and Scott Grapin, From Colonist to Revolutionary: John Adams (1735-1826) Francesca Saggini, "The Story Told Well": Thought, Feeling, and Speech in Jane Austen's Proposal Scenes Sharon Worley, Philipp Otto Runge and the Semiotic Language of Nature and Patriotism

Product Description: This final volume in the subseries is a coda to the 1731 campaigns. Paid for by Walpole's administration and postdating Francklin's conviction for seditious libel, the pamphlet is a point-by-point rebuttal of the Craftsman's agenda, blistering and confident.

Product Description: Having finally caught up with overdue entries and reviews, the series here moves from multi-year to single-year volumes, which are projected to continue into the foreseeable future. The entries are presented in sections on printing and bibliographical studies; history, social, and economic studies; philosophy, science, and religion; fine arts; foreign literatures and languages; and British and American literatures...read more

Product Description: This reference work provides bibliographic details for students of 18th-century studies.

Product Description: Published to mark the 200th anniversary of George Washington's death, this text offers multidisciplinary scholarly accounts and interpretations of Washingtonian culture and phenomena across the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, considering the founder-president's cultural role.

Product Description: Crirical theory is always retrospective when applied to works from earlier periods. This text takes a new approach to the challenge of literary theory with respect to eighteenth-century studies. It looks at the way that literature of the period dealt with the question of the time of criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: To mark the bicentenary of the death of the revolutionary commander-in-chief, first US president, and mythic culture hero, scholars of literature, culture, and the arts explore phenomena surrounding him during the two centuries. Their 17 essays consider him as mythic figure and founder; as literary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Enlightening Allegory" makes an assault on the Augustan face of a slippery literary form. Offering 15 essays on the theory, texts, and even historical implementations of allegory during the Enlightenment, it aims to provide both an encyclopaedic introduction to, and an innovative, analytic exploration of this much misunderstood mode...read more

Product Description: British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century initiated a critique of human knowledge unrivaled in both its scope and its enthusiasm. Author Kevin L. Cope now attempts to provide a coherent, evocative account of explanatory rhetoric in early modern Britain...read more