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Product Description: The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture...read more
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9780521237192, titled "Prodigals and Pilgrims" | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $59.95 | also contains Prodigals and Pilgrims | About this edition: The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.
Product Description: The resurgence of marriage as a transnational institution, same-sex or otherwise, draws upon as much as it departs from enlightenment ideologies of sex, gender, and sexuality which this collection aims to investigate, interrogate, and conceptualize anew...read more
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9781472430175 | Ashgate Pub Co, January 28, 2015, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: The resurgence of marriage as a transnational institution, same-sex or otherwise, draws upon as much as it departs from enlightenment ideologies of sex, gender, and sexuality which this collection aims to investigate, interrogate, and conceptualize anew.
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9781590176191 | New York Review of Books, April 9, 2013, cover price $19.95
Product Description: Tony C. Brown examines âthe inescapable yet infinitely troubling figure of the not-quite-nothingâ in Enlightenment attempts to think about the aesthetic and the savage. The various texts Brown considersâincluding the writings of Addison, Rousseau, Kant, and Defoeâturn to exotic figures in order to delimit the aesthetic, and to aesthetics in order to comprehend the savage...read more
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9780816675623 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 1, 2012, cover price $82.50 | About this edition: Tony C.
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9780816675630 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 1, 2012, cover price $27.50
Product Description: Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental narratives played for readers struggling to negotiate previously unimagined differences between and among people, institutions, and ideas...read more
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9780230108677 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 15, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field.
Product Description: As a rhetoric of the mean (mesotes ideal), sensibility provides a positive catalog of emotionalization. This is because ethos as an emotional level is viewed as being able, through gentle emotions, to please, placate and achieve sympathy and virtue (Quintilian)...read more
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9783110275742 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, April 1, 2012, cover price $182.00 | About this edition: As a rhetoric of the mean (mesotes ideal), sensibility provides a positive catalog of emotionalization.
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9780230308442 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2012, cover price $105.00
Product Description: Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors. Arguing against the commonly held view that aesthetics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was defined by the professionalization of criticism and the disinterested contemplation and evaluation of the work of art in isolation, David Marshall seeks to understand how and why aesthetic experience in fact often generated tremendous emotion and tension...read more
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9780801882333 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 19, 2005, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors.
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9780896724518 | Reprint edition (Texas Tech Univ Pr, July 1, 2001), cover price $59.95
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9780521661461 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 5, 2000, cover price $99.99
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9780874136722 | Univ of Delaware Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $90.00
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9780814766446 | New York Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $85.00
Product Description: Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721), Richardson's Clarissa (1749-50), Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), and Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782)...read more
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9780804725385 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721), Richardson's Clarissa (1749-50), Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), and Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782).
Product Description: Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers...read more
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9780804722681 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers.
Product Description: This book is an attempt to answer Michel Foucault's question, 'What is an author?' It examines the relationship between personal identity, the physical person of the writer, and the 'author' projected as a matter of public perception via the reception of written texts...read more
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9780804723008 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: This book is an attempt to answer Michel Foucault's question, 'What is an author?
Product Description: Examines the "fragments", the deliberately unfinished work, of 18th-century European writers and artists. This study treats the fragment as a genre, examining the practice of reading, the sexing of forms and the fragment's meaning within the context of the social mythologies of its time...read more
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9780813915029 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: Examines the "fragments", the deliberately unfinished work, of 18th-century European writers and artists.
Product Description: In this hermeneutic analysis of seven literary texts, Stephanie Barbé Hammer studies the roles of criminal protagonists in the dramas of George Lillo (The London Merchant) and Friedrich Schiller (The Robbers) and in the narratives of Abbé de Prévost (Manon Lescaut), Henry Fielding (Jonathan Wild), Marquis de Sade (Justine), William Godwin (Caleb Williams), and Heinrich von Kleist (Michael Kohlhaas)...read more
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9780809318315 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 21, 1994, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: In this hermeneutic analysis of seven literary texts, Stephanie Barbé Hammer studies the roles of criminal protagonists in the dramas of George Lillo (The London Merchant) and Friedrich Schiller (The Robbers) and in the narratives of Abbé de Prévost (Manon Lescaut), Henry Fielding (Jonathan Wild), Marquis de Sade (Justine), William Godwin (Caleb Williams), and Heinrich von Kleist (Michael Kohlhaas).
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9780820702353 | Duquesne Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: book
Product Description: The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture...read more
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9780521237192 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $59.95 | also contains Stem in the Real World | About this edition: The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.
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9780691064819 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 1982, cover price $47.50
Product Description: The absence of self in Classical literaÂture and the emergence in the eighÂteenth century of the concept of the unique and individual self asserting its existence and seeking its truth in priÂvate experience and feeling is often touched upon in cultural histories but little explained...read more
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9780809308156 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, May 1, 1978, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The absence of self in Classical literaÂture and the emergence in the eighÂteenth century of the concept of the unique and individual self asserting its existence and seeking its truth in priÂvate experience and feeling is often touched upon in cultural histories but little explained.
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9780833723956 | Burt Franklin, December 1, 1970, cover price $54.50
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