Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute

Adrian J Wallbank

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Dialogue was a pivotal genre for the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Focusing on non-canonical British writers Wallbank examines the evolution of dialo... Lees meer

The Spirit of the Union

Gordon Pentland

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Pentland's study has 3 aims: to place the uprising in a wider context by exploring the modes of extra-parliamentary politics between 1815 and1820 as w... Lees meer

Enlightenment and Modernity

Wayne Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernit... Lees meer

The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century

Jonathan Lamb

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from... Lees meer

Montesquieu and England

Ursula Haskins Gonthier

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Gonthier sets Montesquieu's work in the context of early eighteenth-century Anglo-French relations, taking a comparative approach to show how Montesqu... Lees meer

Harlequin Empire

David Worrall

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the prese... Lees meer

British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths

James Epstein, David Karr

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• This book explores the hopes, desires, and imagined futures that characterized British radicalism in the 1790s, and the resurfacing of this sense of p... Lees meer

Enlightenment and Modernity

Wayne Hudson

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernit... Lees meer

Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment

Ariyuki Kondo

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative f... Lees meer

The Sublime Invention

Michael R Lynn

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importan... Lees meer

Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment

Ariyuki Kondo

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative f... Lees meer

William Wickham, Master Spy

Michael Durey

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• A biography of William Wickham (1761-1840), Britain's master spy on the Continent for more than five years during the French Revolutionary wars. It fo... Lees meer

Liberating Medicine, 1720-1835

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselv... Lees meer

Montesquieu and England

Ursula Haskins Gonthier

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Gonthier sets Montesquieu's work in the context of early eighteenth-century Anglo-French relations, taking a comparative approach to show how Montesqu... Lees meer

Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Charlotte Smith's early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form; her novels advanced sensibility beyond its reliance on emotional facility; a... Lees meer

Sociability and Cosmopolitanism

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Not... Lees meer

The English Deists

Wayne Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic concept... Lees meer

British Visions of America, 1775-1820

Emma MacLeod

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Macleod examines changing British conceptions of America across the political spectrum during a period of political, cultural and intellectual upheava... Lees meer

The Language of Whiggism

Kathryn Chittick

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• The premise of Chittick's study is that the national discourse found in British periodical literature of 1802-30 is crucial to an understanding of the... Lees meer

Romantic Localities

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes - both geographical... Lees meer

The Spirit of the Union

Gordon Pentland

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• Pentland's study has 3 aims: to place the uprising in a wider context by exploring the modes of extra-parliamentary politics between 1815 and1820 as w... Lees meer

Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive them... Lees meer

Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment

Alexander Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | Enlightenment World
• The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of 'hu... Lees meer

The Poetic Enlightenment

Rowan Boyson

• Paperback | Engels | Enlightenment World
• The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge - ... Lees meer