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  • Sleep in Early Modern England

    par Sasha Handley ...
    A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. After 1660 the accepted notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces and supernatural agents was ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • New Directions in Social and Cultural History

    Modifié par Sasha Handley, Prof. Lucy Noakes, Professor Rohan McWilliam ...
    Collections series New Directions in Social and Cultural History
    What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history. Focusing on ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Visions of an Unseen World

    Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England

    par Sasha Handley ...
    Collections series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
    A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment. ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

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  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    par Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • English Literature in Context

    Modifié par Paul Poplawski ...
    This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    par Kenneth R. Johnston ...
    Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars against republican France. Liberal young writers and intellectuals whose enthusiasm for the American and ... En savoir plus

    $65.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

    Modifié par Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an ... En savoir plus

    $159.99 CAD

  • Romanticism and Caricature

    par Ian Haywood ...
    Collections Livre 103 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of graphic satire and demonstrates how this art form transformed Romantic-era politics into a unique and compelling spectacle of corruption, ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

    Modifié par Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • At Vanity Fair

    From Bunyan to Thackeray

    par Kirsty Milne, Sharon Achinstein ...
    At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation and influence, traces the fictional representation of Vanity Fair over three centuries from John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), to ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Modifié par J. A. Downie ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Making British Culture

    English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830

    par David Allan ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD