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Author | : Graham Midgley |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780300068139 |
This social history of academic life in 18th-century Oxford presents an account of the activities of students and dons at the university: the often inordinate eating and drinking; life in the senior common rooms; the struggles with authority; the place of women in an all-male environment; the pleasures of sauntering in a still-rural Oxford; the sports and pastimes that kept students from their books; music, theatre, and the astounding variety of entertainment found in the streets: executions, political riots, and circuses that the gown as well as the town attended and relished.
Author | : Jeffrey Wigelsworth |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2018-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900437535X |
In the first detailed history of All Souls College under the Wardenship of Bernard Gardiner, Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth offers a character driven story that addresses scheming, duplicity, and self-righteousness projected against some of the most important political and religious episodes of the early eighteenth century and the people who animated them. Throughout this book, Wigelsworth illuminates the ways in which All Souls and its warden were caught between competing visions of what England, and consequently Oxford, would look like in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Author | : Roger Lonsdale |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 1800 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0191501425 |
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period's restraints and inhibitions.
Author | : Paddy Bullard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198727836 |
This handbook is a guide to the kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century and it focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
Author | : Paul Langford |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2000-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192853996 |
Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.
Author | : J. A. Downie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199566747 |
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensible resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel.
Author | : James Anthony Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199549028 |
This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. A team of experts provide new accounts of both major and lesser-known thinkers, and explores the diverse approaches in the period to logic and metaphysics, the passions, morality, criticism, and politics.
Author | : Abigail Williams |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300228104 |
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
Author | : Mary Pix |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2008-11-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0199554811 |
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2001"--T.p
Author | : Christina Lupton |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2018-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421425777 |
How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read? Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century—when working hours increased and lighter and quicker forms of reading (newspapers, magazines, broadsheets) surged in popularity—the material form of the codex book invited readers to situate themselves creatively in time. Drawing on letters, diaries, reading logs, and a range of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels, Christina Lupton’s Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century concretely describes how book-readers of the past carved up, expanded, and anticipated time. Placing canonical works by Elizabeth Inchbald, Henry Fielding, Amelia Opie, and Samuel Richardson alongside those of lesser-known authors and readers, Lupton approaches books as objects that are good at attracting particular forms of attention and paths of return. In contrast to the digital interfaces of our own moment and the ephemeral newspapers and pamphlets read in the 1700s, books are rarely seen as shaping or keeping modern time. However, as Lupton demonstrates, books are often put down and picked up, they are leafed through as well as read sequentially, and they are handed on as objects designed to bridge temporal distances. In showing how discourse itself engages with these material practices, Lupton argues that reading is something to be studied textually as well as historically. Applying modern theorists such as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, and Bernard Stiegler, Lupton offers a rare phenomenological approach to the study of a concrete historical field. This compelling book stands out for the combination of archival research, smart theoretical inquiry, and autobiographical reflection it brings into play.