1650-1850

1650-1850
Author: Kevin L. Cope
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1684480736

With issue twenty-four of 1650–1850, this annual enters its second quarter-century with a new publisher, a new look, a new editorial board, and a new commitment to intellectual and artistic exploration. As the diversely inventive essays in this first issue from the Bucknell University Press demonstrate, the energy and open-mindedness that made 1650–1850 a success continue to intensify. This first Bucknell issue includes a special feature that explores the use of sacred space in what was once incautiously called “the age of reason.” A suite of book reviews renews the 1650–1850 legacy of full-length and unbridled evaluation of the best in contemporary Enlightenment scholarship. These lively and informative reviews celebrate the many years that book review editor Baerbel Czennia has served 1650–1850 and also make for an able handoff to Samara Anne Cahill of Nanyang Technological University, who will edit the book review section beginning with our next volume. Most important of all, this issue serves as an invitation to scholars to offer their most creative and thoughtful work for consideration for publication in 1650–1850. About the annual journal 1650-1850 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines—literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for “special features” that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors. First published in 1994, 1650-1850 is currently in its 24th volume. ISSN 1065-3112. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Consumers and Luxury

Consumers and Luxury
Author: Maxine Berg
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780719052743

This volume charts the rise of consumer culture in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Essays are included on France and Holland, but the focus is primarily on Britain. Themes discussed include art markets, collecting and display, and are set alongside those of value and luxury.

Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850

Book Collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650-1850
Author: Elizabethanne Boran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Book collecting
ISBN: 9781846827372

This volume explores the world of book collecting in early modern Ireland and Britain. It investigates the ways in which texts, both manuscript and printed, were collected, and draws attention to the wider impact of the European book trade on changing reading habits and the availability of books. Early modern book collectors bought books for a variety of reasons. By combining case studies of institutional and private book collectors, the essays not only demonstrate how individual collections came into being, but also how private and public collections interacted with each other. These essays offer vital insights into the communal world of the early modern book trade.

British Military Firearms, 1650-1850

British Military Firearms, 1650-1850
Author: Howard L. Blackmore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1961
Genre: Firearms
ISBN:

A detailed history of the development of the standard military arm, with a wealth of technical data. Line drawings, diagrams, and 80 pages of photographs.

Gender in English Society 1650-1850

Gender in English Society 1650-1850
Author: Robert B. Shoemaker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317894383

A lively social history of the roles of men and women - from workplace to household, from parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage bed. Robert Shoemaker investigates such varied topics as crime, leisure, the theatre, religious observance, notions of morality and even changing patterns of sexual activity itself.

Forging a Unitary State

Forging a Unitary State
Author: John P. LeDonne
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 682
Release: 2020-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487542119

Was Russia truly an empire respectful of the differences among its constituent parts or was it a unitary state seeking to create complete homogeneity?

The Rise of the English Town, 1650-1850

The Rise of the English Town, 1650-1850
Author: Christopher Chalklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2001-01-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521667371

This volume examines the growth and development of English towns when the proportion of the population living in towns rose from a sixth to a half. Chalklin surveys the demography, economy and social structure of market and county towns.

The Printed Reader

The Printed Reader
Author: Amelia Dale
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 168448104X

Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies)​ The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and embody their readings. Through intersecting readings of quixotic narratives, including work by Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, George Colman, Richard Graves, and Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Dale argues that literature was envisaged as imprinting—most crucially, in gendered terms—the reader’s mind, character, and body. The Printed Reader brings together key debates concerning quixotic narratives, print culture, sensibility, empiricism, book history, and the material text, connecting developments in print technology to gendered conceptualizations of quixotism. Tracing the meanings of quixotic readers’ bodies, The Printed Reader claims the social and political text that is the quixotic reader is structured by the experiential, affective, and sexual resonances of imprinting and impressions. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Nourish the People

Nourish the People
Author: Pierre-Etienne Will
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Total Pages: 635
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 089264091X

The Qing state, driven by Confucian precepts of good government and urgent practical needs, committed vast resources to its granaries. Nourish the People traces the basic practices of this system, analyzes the organizational bases of its successes and failures, and examines variant practices in different regions. The volume concludes with an assessment of the granary system’s social and economic impact and historical comparison with the food supply policies of other states.

1650-1850

1650-1850
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1994
Genre: Aesthetics
ISBN: