ISBNs for english literature 18th century history criticism

ISBN.nu

search for books and compare prices

english literature 18th century history criticism matches 142 work(s)

< previous 25 | displaying 26 to 50 | next 25 >

show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest

The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein

Product Description: Afforded only limited access to the male-dominated sciences, many women writers nevertheless made significant contributions to intellectual culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Women made advances in science and engaged with scientific ideas through various forms of literary discourse, both vitally important in the course of women’s history...read more

By Judy A. Hayden (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780230110298 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Afforded only limited access to the male-dominated sciences, many women writers nevertheless made significant contributions to intellectual culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

By Pamela Clemit (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780521516075 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 21, 2011, cover price $110.00

Paperback:

9780521731621 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 21, 2011, cover price $34.99

Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730

Product Description: In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth - and early eighteenth -century literature, Laura Linker examines heroines appearing in literature by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley, and Daniel Defoe...read more

By Laura Linker

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781409418115, titled "Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730: 1670-1730" | Ashgate Pub Co, April 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth - and early eighteenth -century literature, Laura Linker examines heroines appearing in literature by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley, and Daniel Defoe.

The Orphan in Eighteenth-century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body

By Cheryl L. Nixon

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780754664246 | Ashgate Pub Co, May 1, 2011, cover price $149.95

Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830: The Role of Sympathy in British Literature on India, 1770-1830

Product Description: India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain...read more

By Andrew Rudd

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780230233393 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 15, 2011, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period.

Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression, 1660-1800

Product Description: ArisingÂ from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering...read more

By Richard Terry

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780230246317 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: ArisingÂ from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering.

Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire: The Scope in Ev'ry Page

Product Description: This study interprets eighteenth-century satireâs famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenmentâs "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" â a moment at which widespread attention was being paid, for the first time, to format, layout, and eye-catching advertising strategies...read more

By Katherine Mannheimer

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780415890823 | Routledge, May 26, 2011, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This study interprets eighteenth-century satireâs famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenmentâs "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" â a moment at which widespread attention was being paid, for the first time, to format, layout, and eye-catching advertising strategies.

The Little Everyman: Stature and Masculinity in Eighteenth-century English Literature

Product Description: From the publication of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in 1726 to Josef Boruwlaski's Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf in 1788, eighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular culture exhibited an unprecedented fascination with small male bodies of various kinds...read more

By Deborah Needleman Armintor

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780295990873 | Univ of Washington Pr, September 9, 2011, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: From the publication of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in 1726 to Josef Boruwlaski's Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf in 1788, eighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular culture exhibited an unprecedented fascination with small male bodies of various kinds.

Paperback:

9780295990880 | Univ of Washington Pr, September 9, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Eighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular culture exhibited an unprecedented fascination with small male bodies of various kinds.

Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy: Great Shakespeareans

Product Description: A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by nineteenth-century novelists.>

By Adrian Poole (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780826435460 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 9, 2011, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors.

Jewish Representation in British Literature 1780-1840: After Shylock

Product Description: Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical Jewish figures...read more

By Michael Scrivener

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780230102897 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical Jewish figures.

Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712Â1831

Product Description: Challenging literary histories that locate the emergence of fantastic literature in the Romantic period, David Sandner shows that tales of wonder and imagination were extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century. Sandner engages contemporary critical definitions and defenses of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fantastic literature, demonstrating that a century of debate and experimentation preceded the Romantic's interest in the creative imagination...read more

By David Sandner

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781409428626, titled "Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712â1831" | Ashgate Pub Co, October 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Challenging literary histories that locate the emergence of fantastic literature in the Romantic period, David Sandner shows that tales of wonder and imagination were extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century.

Transatlantic Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

Product Description: In 1789, before the abolition of slavery in Great Britain or the United States of America, poet William Blake quietly appealed to the public's sense of humanity in "Songs of Innocence" with the poem, "The Little Black Boy". In that same year, a former slave named Olaudah Equiano was catapulted to fame as a sympathetic face for the abolitionist movement with the publication of his autobiography...read more

By Kamille Stone Stanton (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781443832885 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, October 1, 2011, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: In 1789, before the abolition of slavery in Great Britain or the United States of America, poet William Blake quietly appealed to the public's sense of humanity in "Songs of Innocence" with the poem, "The Little Black Boy".

Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-Century England: Public Negotiations, Literary Discourses, Topography

Product Description: Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this collection examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century. While the concept of identity has received much critical attention, the question of how identities were mediated usually remains implicit...read more

By Isabel Karremann (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781409426189 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this collection examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century.

Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830

By Jon Mee

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780199591749 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 10, 2011, cover price $99.00

Paperback:

9780199683741 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 1, 2013, cover price $40.95

Cultures of the Sublime: Selected Readings, 1750-1830

Product Description: This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Cultures of the Sublime recovers a broad context for engagements with, and writing about, the sublime, offering a selection of texts from a wide range of areas which both generate and investigate sublime effects...read more

By Peter Howell (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780230299658 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2011), cover price $112.00 | About this edition: This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period.

Paperback:

9780230299665 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2011, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period.

The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India

By Siraj Ahmed

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780804775229 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 14, 2011, cover price $80.00

Paperback:

9780804775236 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 14, 2011, cover price $24.95

Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman's Liberation Movement: Independence, War, Masculinity, and the Novel, 1778Â1818

Product Description: In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary political debates, particularly those relating to the French Revolution...read more

By Megan A. Woodworth

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781409427803, titled "Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman's Liberation Movement: Independence, War, Masculinity, and the Novel, 1778â1818" | Ashgate Pub Co, December 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary political debates, particularly those relating to the French Revolution.

Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670-1840

Product Description: A corrective addendum to Edward Saidâs Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britainâs national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century.Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with original research on Anglo-Islamic relations...read more

By Humberto Garcia

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781421403533 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 20, 2011, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: A corrective addendum to Edward Saidâs Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britainâs national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century.

Modern Antiques: The Material Past in England, 1660-1780

By Barrett Kalter

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781611483789 | Bucknell Univ Pr, December 23, 2011, cover price $84.00

Documenting Eighteenth Century Satire: Pope, Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot in Historical Context

By Pat Rogers

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781443832113 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, January 1, 2012, cover price $75.95

Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self

Product Description: In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints that cast Methodists as primitive, irrational, or deluded also betrayed a thinly cloaked fascination with the experiences of divine presence attributed to the new evangelical movement...read more

By Misty G. Anderson

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781421404806, titled "Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, & the Borders of the Self" | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 14, 2012, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire.

The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-century British Writing

Product Description: Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind? Or something durable, shaped by slow, historical processes, affecting groups of people at different times and places? British writers in the eighteenth century believed that it was both, and the tension between these temporal poles shaped the meaning of taste in the period and set a course for aesthetics in following centuries...read more

By James Noggle

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780199642434 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 7, 2012, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind?

Animality in British Romanticism: The Aesthetics of Species

Product Description: The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism...read more

By Peter Heymans

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780415507301 | Routledge, April 25, 2012, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species.

Making British Indian Fictions: 1772-1823

By Ashok Malhotra

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780230111264 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 19, 2012, cover price $100.00

Imoinda's Shade:: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808, Includes PDF

By Lyndon J. Dominique

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780814292860 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, May 28, 2012), cover price $14.95

< previous 25 | displaying 26 to 50 | next 25 >