The New Eighteenth Century
Author | : Felicity Nussbaum |
Publisher | : Methuen Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Felicity Nussbaum |
Publisher | : Methuen Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807834874 |
The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
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 | : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804746939 |
An Economist Book of the Year, 2001. In the 18th century, a debate ensued over the French naturalist Buffon’s contention that the New World was in fact geologically new. Historians, naturalists, and philosophers clashed over Buffon’s view. This book maintains that the “dispute” was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should naturalists and historians reconstruct the history of the New World and its people. In addressing this question, the author offers a strikingly novel interpretation of the Enlightenment.
Author | : Jacob Sider Jost |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813945062 |
Can a single word explain the world? In the British eighteenth century, interest comes close: it lies at the foundation of the period’s thinking about finance, economics, politics, psychology, and aesthetics. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century provides the first comprehensive account of interest in an era when a growing national debt created a new class of rentiers who lived off of interest, the emerging discipline of economics made self-interest an axiom of human behavior, and booksellers began for the first time to market books by calling them "interesting." Sider Jost reveals how the multiple meanings of interest allowed writers to make connections—from witty puns to deep structural analogies—among different spheres of eighteenth-century life. Challenging a long and influential tradition that reads the eighteenth century in terms of individualism, atomization, abstraction, and the hegemony of market-based thinking, this innovative study emphasizes the importance of interest as an idiom for thinking about concrete social ties, at court and in families, universities, theaters, boroughs, churches, and beyond. To "be in the interest of" or "have an interest with" another was a crucial relationship, one that supplied metaphors and habits of thought across the culture. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century recovers the small, densely networked world of Hanoverian Britain and its self-consciously inventive language for talking about human connection.
Author | : Michèle Lalande |
Publisher | : ABRAMS |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Whoever said "Everything old is new again" could have been talking about French Pompadour Style. The flamboyant, opulent, refined aesthetic -- so characteristic of the eighteenth century -- has enjoyed a spectacular revival in recent years. In "The New Eighteenth-Century Style," journalist Michhle Lalande and photographer Gilles Trillard, both experts in the field of interior dicor, survey 30 examples of this quintessential blending of exquisite detail and ostentatious affluence. From lush velvet upholstery to the emblematic use of turquoise with gold accents, these perfectly captured interiors beguile the reader with well-worn extravagance. In an era of "shabby chic" the more refined, more pristine accents of Pompadour may be just what the world of interior dicor needs -- and this beautiful book provides an indispensable guide.
Author | : Felicity Nussbaum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780415904742 |
Author | : Michèle Lalande |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780810998674 |
Exploring interiors of breezy elegance, where Pop Art and industrial design mingle with patinaed highboys and carved candelabra, this book reinvents classic elements of French style, making the old new all over again.
Author | : István M. Szijártó |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2020-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789208807 |
Across eighteenth-century Europe, political power resided overwhelmingly with absolute monarchs, with notable exceptions including the much-studied British Parliament as well as the frequently overlooked Hungarian Diet, which placed serious constraints on royal power and broadened opportunities for political participation. Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during this period, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, putting its historical significance in international perspective.
Author | : Joseph F. Bartolomeo |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780874134889 |
He also demonstrates the extent to which early novelists and critics anticipated many of the aesthetic and ethical issues that concern critics of fiction, and of other popular genres, in our time.