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9781851968480, titled "A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift" | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, June 30, 2008, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day.
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9781138663404, titled "A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift" | Routledge, January 20, 2016, cover price $52.95
Product Description: This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of study that cover Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century...read more
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9781848933408 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, August 31, 2012, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution.
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9781138662032 | Routledge, January 20, 2016, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution.
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9781421418032 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 4, 2015, cover price $54.95
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9781611486964 | Bucknell Univ Pr, July 16, 2015, cover price $70.00
Product Description: Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed. Ashley Marshall argues that history mattered enormously to Swift. He read a vast amount of history and uses historical examples copiously in his own works...read more
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9781107101760 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed.
Product Description: The successful performance of a particular kind of masculinity was critical to political life during the eighteenth century, when men who claimed membership of the public sphere were expected to be men of honour as well as property...read more
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9781107007895 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The successful performance of a particular kind of masculinity was critical to political life during the eighteenth century, when men who claimed membership of the public sphere were expected to be men of honour as well as property.
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9781107449206 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 14, 2014, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The successful performance of a particular kind of masculinity was critical to political life during the eighteenth century, when men who claimed membership of the public sphere were expected to be men of honour as well as property.
Product Description: The Majesty of the People links emerging Romantic ideas about the role of the writer to the ambivalence of the concept of popular sovereignty. By closely examining how theories about the role of the intellectual or the writer are developed as part of the 1790s' contestation of the concept of the majesty of the people, Georgina Green provides a coherent account of debates about popular sovereignty, and contributes to understanding of authorship and the rise of 'culture' in this period...read more
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9780199689064 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 15, 2014, cover price $97.00 | About this edition: The Majesty of the People links emerging Romantic ideas about the role of the writer to the ambivalence of the concept of popular sovereignty.
Product Description: Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy, and political science...read more
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9781107005594 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2012, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher.
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9780521183314 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2012, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher.
Product Description: Thomas Holcroft was a central figure of the 1790s, whose texts played an important role in the transition toward Romanticism. In this, the first essay collection devoted to his life and work, the contributors reassess Holcroft's contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres - drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, political philosophy - and to the project of revolutionary reform in the late eighteenth century...read more
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9781409444374 | Ashgate Pub Co, September 28, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Thomas Holcroft was a central figure of the 1790s, whose texts played an important role in the transition toward Romanticism.
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9780199642847 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 7, 2012, cover price $105.00
Product Description: New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry...read more
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9781611490404 | Univ of Delaware Pr, April 1, 2011, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C.
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9780801899317 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 6, 2011, cover price $75.00
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9781443810104 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, August 1, 2009, cover price $84.95
Product Description: A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson...read more
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9780230355996 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 17, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters.
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9780820333724 | 2 edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, January 1, 2009), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: First published in 1960, The Politics of Samuel Johnson remains one of the most significant studies of Johnson ever written.
9780820312064 | 2 edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, February 1, 1990), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: First published in 1960 this book offers a study of Johnson's life, politics and art.
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