In Defiance of Oligarchy

Linda Colley

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• In English history the years between 1714 and 1760 are peculiar in two ways. They have received only scant attention from historians, and they witness... Lees meer

Moral Luck

Bernard Williams

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• A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with q... Lees meer

Dante Philomythes and Philosopher

Patrick Boyde

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• This book is devoted to a full and lucid exposition of Boyde's ideas. In the first two parts, the author presents a systematic account of the universe... Lees meer

The Early Vasas

Michael Roberts

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• This comprehensive history of sixteenth-century Sweden has remained a standard work for English-speaking historians since its publication in 1968. It ... Lees meer

Prodigals and Pilgrims

Jay Fliegelman

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• The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scrip... Lees meer

New Images of the Natural in France

D G Charlton

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• The latter half of the eighteenth century saw radical changes in the way nature - both external and human nature - was perceived. It is these new perc... Lees meer

The Revolt of the Catalans

J H Elliott

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• The revolution of Catalonia in 1640 was a signal event in seventeenth-century Europe. Its causes and antecedents - essential for an understanding of t... Lees meer

Hume's Philosophical Politics

Duncan Forbes

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• This is a study of Hume's political thought based on a survey of all his writings in their original and revised versions, with full reference to the w... Lees meer

Theatre and Crisis 1632-1642

Martin Butler

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• This is a thorough re-evaluation of the drama written and performed in the decade leading up to the Civil War, the most seriously neglected period of ... Lees meer

Structuralism or Criticism?

Geoffrey Strickland

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• Geoffrey Strickland's book considers some of the principal Structuralist theories of the sixties and seventies, which derive from the 'semiology' or '... Lees meer

The Dark Side of the Landscape

John Barrell

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• The eighteenth-century saw a radical change in the depiction of country life in English painting: feeling less constrained by the conventions of class... Lees meer

Events and Their Afterlife

Alan C Charity

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• First published in 1966, Events and their Afterlife has had a lasting influence in its field. This book is concerned with Christian typology and its m... Lees meer

The Birth of the English Common Law

R C Van Caenegem

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• First published in 1973, The Birth of the English Common Law has come to enjoy classic status. In a new preface, Professor van Caenegem discusses some... Lees meer

Ben Jonson

Anne Barton

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• Since the Romantic period, Jonson has been an author more respected than read. Frequently compared with Shakespeare, he usually suffers unfairly from ... Lees meer

English Books and Readers 1558-1603: Volume 2

H S Bennett

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• In this second volume of his classic English Books and Readers, first published in 1965, H. S. Bennett continues the story down to the end of the reig... Lees meer

Studies in Aeschylus

R P Winnington-Ingram

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• Professor Winnington-Ingram's reputation as an authority on Greek drama is based on a lifetime's careful scholarship. In 1980 the Press published Prof... Lees meer

Ulysses and the Sirens

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• This book was first published in 1984, as the revised edition of a 1979 original. The text is composed of studies in a descending sequence from perfec... Lees meer

The Definition of Literature

W W Robson

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• Professor W. W. Robson is an eminent literary critic, best known for his work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. His natural form of exp... Lees meer

The Nature of Social Laws

Robert Brown

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• This volume is a study of the development of the idea that human social behaviour is governed by laws comparable to the laws of natural science. The a... Lees meer

F. R. Leavis

F R Leavis

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• This volume gathers together some of F. R. Leavis's earliest work with the things he was working on before his death, as well as a representative samp... Lees meer

Word and Image

Norman Bryson

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• This 1982 book, now recognised as a classic, has done perhaps more than any other single work to change the face of art criticism in the twentieth cen... Lees meer

Weberian Sociological Theory

Randall Collins

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• Randall Collins convincingly argues that much of Max Weber's work has been misunderstood, and that many of his most striking and sophisticated theorie... Lees meer

Enlightenment and Despair

Geoffrey Hawthorn

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• Geoffrey Hawthorn has written a substantial conclusion for the second edition of his widely acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, Fr... Lees meer

Ways with Words

Shirley Brice Heath

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• Ways with Words, first published in 1983, is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few ... Lees meer