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  • Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Modifié par Dr. James Grande, Dr. Brian H. Murray ...
    This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and new historical sciences called into question the historicity of Scripture, controversies raged over the performance, publication and censorship of old and new musical forms. From oratorio to ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Sound and Sense in British Romanticism

    Modifié par James Grande, Carmel Raz ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    A radical re-imagining of the relationship between sound and sense took place in Britain in the decades around 1800. This new approach reconfigured sound as central to understandings of space and temporality, from the diurnal rhythms of everyday life in the modern city to the 'deep time' of the natural world. At the same time, sound emerged as a frequently disruptive phenomenon, a philosophical ... En savoir plus

    $106.99 CAD

  • The Spirit of Controversy

    and Other Essays

    par William Hazlitt ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as a young man inspired him to a literary career, but he became disillusioned with them as apostates from the cause of liberty ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Opinions of William Cobbett

    par James Grande, John Stevenson ...
    Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, William Cobbett cut a swathe through late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century British society with his copious and acerbic writings on any and every issue that caught his attention. Both a radical and a conservative, and with strong opinions on any given subject, Cobbett had a ... En savoir plus

    $96.18 CAD

  • William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England

    Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1792-1835

    par James Grande ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment

    Contexts and Legacy

    Modifié par James Grande, John Stevenson ...
    Collections series The Enlightenment World
    Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Following a career in the British army he began writing as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United States, defending all things British against the French Revolution and its supporters. This is the first collection on Cobbett and contains essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines. ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

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  • The Making of the English Working Class

    par E. P. Thompson ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality. ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Radical History Of Britain

    Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms

    par Edward Vallance ...
    From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Adam Smith

    An Enlightened Life

    par Nicholas Phillipson ...
    Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself ... En savoir plus

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  • Customs in Common

    Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

    par E. P. Thompson ...
    The "meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane" sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class ( The New York Times Book Review).This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system ... En savoir plus

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  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    par Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • English Pastoral Music

    From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955

    par Eric Saylor ...
    Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination. As Saylor shows, pastoral music adapted and transformed ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD