Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730, Leah Orr
Автор: Rose, Craig Название: England in the 1690s ISBN: 0631209360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631209362 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 8704.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presenting an interpretation of England in the 1690s, this book reconstructs the reign of William III through the eyes and in the words of those who lived through it. The author employs a range of sources including popular ballads, correspondence, diaries, pamphlets, sermons, poems and memoirs.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"—a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future—that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety of scientific, technological, and intellectual interventions intended for the betterment of England. But for all the fanfare surrounding them, few such schemes actually materialized, leaving scores of defunct visions, from Defoe's own attempt to farm cats for perfume, to Mary Astell's proposal to charter a college for women, to countless ventures for improving land, streamlining government, and inventing new consumer goods. Taken together, these failed plans form a compelling alternative history of a Britain that might have been. The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive and critical account of projects, exploring the historical memory surrounding these concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy. Using methods of literary analysis, David Alff shows how projects began as written proposals, circulated as print objects, spurred physical undertakings, and provoked responses in the realms of poetry, fiction, and drama. Mapping this process discloses the ways in which eighteenth-century authors applied their faculties of imagination to achieve finite goals and, in so doing, devised new ways of seeing the world through its future potential. Approaching old projects through the language, landscapes, data, and personas they left behind, Alff contends this vision was, and remains, vital to the functions of statecraft, commerce, science, religion, and literature.
Автор: Edited by Jane Moody Название: The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830 ISBN: 0521617774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521617772 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. Chapters cover subjects such as actors and acting, playwrights and performers and the major theatrical forms of the period such as tragedy, melodrama and pantomime.
Автор: Beier, A. L. (illinois State University, Usa) Название: Social thought in england, 1480-1730 ISBN: 081538145X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815381457 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Authorities ranging from philosophers to politicians nowadays question the existence of concepts of society, whether in the present or the past. This book argues that social concepts most definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England, laying the foundations for modern models of society. The book analyzes social paradigms and how they changed in the period. A pervasive medieval model was the "body social," which imagined a society of three estates - the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty - conjoined by interdependent functions, arranged in static hierarchies based upon birth, and rejecting wealth and championing poverty. Another model the book describes as "social humanist," that fundamentally questioned the body social, advancing merit over birth, mobility over stasis, and wealth over poverty. The theory of the body social was vigorously articulated between the 1480s and the 1550s. Parts of the old metaphor actually survived beyond 1550, but alternative models of social humanist thought challenged the body concept in the period, advancing a novel paradigm of merit, mobility, and wealth. The book's methodology focuses on the intellectual context of a variety of contemporary texts.
Автор: Beier, A. L. Название: Social thought in england, 1480-1730 ISBN: 1138956864 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138956865 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book argues that social concepts most definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England, laying the foundations for modern models of society. It analyzes social paradigms and how they changed in the period.
Автор: Wilson, Rachel Название: Elite women in ascendancy ireland, 1690-1745 ISBN: 178327039X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783270392 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides a thorough examination of the role of women in Ascendancy Ireland.
Автор: Mitchell Sebastian Название: Visions of Britain, 1730-1830 ISBN: 1137290102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137290106 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic pressure, threatening to dismantle the national vision at the moment of its construction.
Автор: Alasdair Raffe Название: Scotland in Revolution, 1685–1690 ISBN: 1474452213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474452212 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4750.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fall
Автор: Lincoln, Margarette Название: British pirates and society, 1680-1730 ISBN: 1472429931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472429933 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Pirates contributed to the British understanding of trans-oceanic navigation, patterns of trade and remote communities. This knowledge advanced imperial expansion, which helps to explain why contemporary attitudes towards piracy were ambivalent. This book, an engaging study of vested interests and conflicting ideologies.
Автор: Macinnes Название: Living with Jacobitism, 1690–1788 ISBN: 184893470X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848934702 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: For over seventy years after the `Glorious Revolution` of 1688-90, Jacobitism survived in the face of Whig propaganda. These essays seek to challenge current views of Jacobite historiography. They focus on migrant communities, networking, smuggling, shipping, religious and intellectual support mechanisms, art, architecture and identity.
Автор: Markley Название: The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600–1730 ISBN: 0521126959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521126953 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination. Questioning conventional Eurocentric histories, in this 2006 book Markley examines how Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift deal with the complexities of a world in which England was marginalised and which was dominated economically by the Eastern empires.
Автор: R. Ballaster Название: The History of British Women`s Writing, 1690 - 1750 ISBN: 1349361860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349361861 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of `enlightened feminism`. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries.
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