Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800
Author: Sophie Chiari
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2021-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030665682

This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly harmful effects. Divided into three balanced sections, the collection includes contributions from renowned specialists of early modern culture and literature as well as rising young scholars as it seeks to establish a dialogue between different methodologies, and explain why the spa-related issues examined still resonate in today’s society.

Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774

Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774
Author: Antonia Forster
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780809314065

This index provides valuable information on the vast majority of reviews of poetry, fiction, and drama during the first 25 years of modern, formalized book reviewing in England. Forster introduces readers to the wealth of material in the two major review journals (Monthly Review and Critical Review), the two major magazines (Gentleman’s and London), and 11 other periodicals. She includes in her 3,023 entries information on format, price, and bookseller’s name taken from the books themselves. In her Introduction, Forster surveys some material concerning the reviewers’ public attitude to their self-appointed task to provide a background against which the reviewers’ literary judgments can be examined.

A Polite and Commercial People

A Polite and Commercial People
Author: Paul Langford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198207337

The first volume of Sir George Clark's Oxford History of England was published in 1934. Over the following 50 years that series established itself as a standard work of reference, and a repertoire of scholarship. The New Oxford History of England, of which this is the first volume, is its successor. Each volume will set out an authoritative view of the present state of scholarship, presenting a distillation of the knowledge built up by a half-century's research and publication of new sources, and incorporating the perspectives and judgements of modern scholars.

The Critical Review

The Critical Review
Author: Tobias George Smollett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1770
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."

Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900

Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900
Author: Brian H. Murray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2016-03-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137543396

This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation.