Launching Fanny Hill

• Hardcover | AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-Century
• A selection of essays providing a broad range of critical approaches encouraging students and teachers of the novel to consider it from a variety of p... Lees meer

The Clarissa Project v. 9; Clarissa and Her Readers - New Essays for the Clarissa Project

• Hardcover | AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-Century
• This volume presents essays written for the occasion of the AMS Press reprinting of the third edition of Samuel Richardson's ""Clarissa"". The essays ... Lees meer

The Orders of Gothic

Dale Townshend

• Hardcover | AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-Century
• Discusses a selection of Gothic romances, dramas, and chapbooks written and published in Britain between Walpole's 1764 "The Castle of Otranto" and Ma... Lees meer

Religion in the Age of Reason

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• Brings together international scholars examining the role of religion during a period whose scholarship has typically concentrated on the secular. The... Lees meer

Celebrity

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• While even sophisticated observers are tempted to regard celebrity as a phenomenon distinctly related to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it ... Lees meer

William Beckford

Malcolm Jack

• Hardcover | AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-Century
• A biography of William Beckford, the 18th-century linguist, musician, orientalist and art connoisseur who seemed destined for the highest reaches of E... Lees meer

Adventures in Domesticity

Sharon Harrow

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• Against a background of 18th-century British colonial wealth and exploitation, Professor Harrow presents the colonial experience as a field against wh... Lees meer

Comparative Excellence

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• Presents a collection of essays, in which internationally-recognized Shakespearean scholars and equally eminent Johnsonians consider the relationship ... Lees meer

Teaching Eighteenth Century Poetry

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• A handbook on the subject of teaching 18th-century poetry which approaches specific problems and specific poems. Part 1 addresses problems of introduc... Lees meer

Samuel Richardson's ""Clarissa

Susan Price-Karpuk

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• This is a collection that can be used as a reference for studies of Samuel Richardson's ""Clarissa"". It includes main character indexes, place name i... Lees meer

A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986-1998

Jack Lynch

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• A bibliography of studies of Samuel Johnson from 1986 to 1998. Dr Lynch records not only writings about Johnson and Boswell but also about a wide vari... Lees meer

Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent

Ann Messenger

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• This work presents a survey of this influential genre of 18th-century literature, highlighting feminist themes and invoking implicit feminist ideology... Lees meer

A Singular Duality

Robert J. Frail

• Hardcover | AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-Century
• Delineates in nine separate essays the complex but ordered progression of ideas in literature that bound two nations, divided by politics and often by... Lees meer

"An Essay on Woman" by John Wilkes and Thomas Potter

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• John Wilkes has been associated with freedom of expression since 1763 when Parliament prosecuted him for printing number 45 of the "North Briton", "a ... Lees meer

The Political History of the Devil

Daniel Defoe

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• First published in 1726, this full-length study of the devil's role in society combines Biblical history with common sense as Defoe considers the conf... Lees meer

The Original and Institution of Civil Government, Discuss'd

Benjamin Hoadly

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• Benjamin Hoadly's ""Original and Institution of Civil Government"" is a founding text for the American republic. This edition features an introduction... Lees meer

Affected Sensibilities

Stephen Ahern

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• An assessment of the history of the English novel, this work reconsiders the role played by the early British novel in the shift from a culture of lib... Lees meer

Eagle in a Gauze Cage

Ruth P. Weinreb

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• In addition to shedding new light on Mme d'Epinay's achievements as an author and even as a ""philosophe"" in her own right, this study offers a re-ex... Lees meer

The English Short-title Catalogue

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• This volume describes and celebrates the remarkable efforts of librarians, cataloguers and scholars who, enabled by generous financial support from fo... Lees meer

Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century

Ann Messenger

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• This biography of the poet Mary Whateley Darwall includes 18 of her poems. It describes how she was thought to be a poetic genius and how she associat... Lees meer

The Sensational Centuries

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• Offers a portfolio of essays on the twists, turns, and metamorphoses of the idea and theme of "sensation" during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nine... Lees meer

The Memoirs of Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland

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• In these memoirs, Cumberland recounts his career in drama, providing insights into the transitional period which witnessed the transformation from neo... Lees meer