The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century 0812295838, 9780812295832

Comparative Practices: Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century 9783839457993

Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulf

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Common and Courtly Language: The Stylistics of Social Class in Eighteenth-Century British Literature 9781512818017

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Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature 9789048527380

The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and mor

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The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century 9781644532591

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active

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Politics and Literature in the Eighteenth Century 0874714052, 0874714001

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Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century 9780812296365

In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational cate

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The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1848 [Unabridged] 1847184979, 9781847184979

This collection of essays brings together eighteenth-century scholars from a variety of disciplines, to discuss conversa

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The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church 9780755692576, 9781845114404

David Hempton's history of the vibrant period between 1650 and 1832 engages with a truly global story: that of Chri

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Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century 9780226706948

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English hi

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Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century 9781526123374

This volume explores the notion of the ‘self’ as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen,

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