Автор: Rounce Название: Fame and Failure 1720–1800 ISBN: 1107042224 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107042223 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A colourful account of less canonical and unfulfilled eighteenth-century British writers that explores ideas of fame and failure. It discusses literary success and reputation, offering authoritative readings of significant writers who did not succeed in fulfilling their potential, from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the emergence of Romanticism.
Автор: Main Gloria Lund Название: Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 ISBN: 0691613834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691613833 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7603.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Setting out to describe the full spectrum of everyday life in early Maryland, this work integrates a range of economic, demographic, and anthropological approaches to the study of a colony in which tobacco was the staple crop. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make avail
Автор: Jones Название: Failure and the American Writer ISBN: 1107056675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107056671 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7920.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jones explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century American writers - including Poe, Melville and Twain - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Here, they emerge as theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self.
Описание: The book is a study of the police and criminal justice in eighteenth-century France, and of the crimes and disorders the authorities had to contain. It is concerned with two provinces - the Auvergne, in the mountainous centre, and the Guyenne, the hinterland of Bordeaux.
Автор: Bannet Название: Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720–1810 ISBN: 1107425433 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107425439 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A study of popular eighteenth-century stories which shaped Britons` and Americans` views of the Atlantic world, and about how they were revised by printers and publishers for different readerships in different circumstances. It will be of interest to students of literature, history and Atlantic and transatlantic studies.
Описание: The myth of the eighteenth-century British "war machine" persists, perplexing those who search for the reasons why Britain lost the Revolutionary War. In this book, R. Arthur Bowler argues that although recent and traditional studies have pointed out many problems of the British forces in America, they have failed to appreciate a major weakness--lo
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