Thinking Matter - Materialism in Eighteenth Century Britain

The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9780300159424

The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to

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Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9780300245424

A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Br

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Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art: Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge 9781350203587, 9781350203617, 9781350203594

How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged

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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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India in the Eighteenth Century

The 18th century is unfolded with a view of acquainting the lay reader and the professed student of history with the for

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Crisis of Empire : Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century 9781441144690, 9781441104458

Britain and the USA have helped define much of world history in recent centuries, and the relationship between the two i

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Knowing Books : The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain [1 ed.] 9780812205213, 9780812243727

The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that dee

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The talk of the town: figurative publics in eighteenth-century Britain 9780838756720

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The culture of sensibility. Sex and society in eighteenth-century Britain [1. ed.] 0226037134

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The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9781503620018

The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the mom

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