Download or read book Essays Upon Several Projects Or Effectual Ways for Advancing the Interest of the Nation written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1702 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays Upon Several Projects Or Effectual Ways for Advancing the Interests of the Nation written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1702 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays upon Several Projects or Effectual ways for advancing the interest of the nation etc written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1702 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays Upon Several Projects Or Effectual Ways for Advancing the Interest of the Nation Wherein are Plainly Laid Down The Means by which the Subjects in General May be Eased and Enriched the Poor Relieved and Trade Encreased in the Most Material Br written by and published by . This book was released on 1702 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays Upon Several Projects written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1702 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of Authors written by Paul Keen and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century critics differed about almost everything, but if there was one point on which they almost universally agreed, it was that they were living through an age of extraordinary change. The texts in this collection respond to a series of fundamental questions about the changing nature of the literary field during a tumultuous age: What types of writing mattered in a thriving commercial nation? What kinds of knowledge ought literature to offer, if it was to continue to be relevant? What did it mean to be an author in this busy modern world, and what sorts of social distinction should authors expect to enjoy? The Age of Authors explores the complexity, sophistication, and creativity with which the eighteenth century literary community (or “republic of letters”) responded to the challenges of the time.
Download or read book Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature D G written by Samuel Halkett and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Modern Fact written by Mary Poovey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how belief—whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity—remained essential to the production of knowledge. Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain etc written by Samuel Halkett and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The works of Daniel De Foe ed by W Hazlitt written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Daniel Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lexicographer s Dilemma written by Jack Lynch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers--those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. Proper Words in Proper Places offers the first narrative history of these endeavors and shows clearly that what we now regard as the only "correct" way to speak emerged out of specific historical and social conditions over the course of centuries. As historian Jack Lynch has discovered, every rule has a human history and the characters peopling his narrative are as interesting for their obsession as for their erudition: the sharp-tongued satirist Jonathan Swift, who called for a government-sponsored academy to issue rulings on the language; the polymath Samuel Johnson, who put dictionaries on a new footing; the eccentric Hebraist Robert Lowth, the first modern to understand the workings of biblical poetry; the crackpot linguist John Horne Tooke, whose bizarre theories continue to baffle scholars; the chemist and theologian Joseph Priestly, whose political radicalism prompted violent riots; the ever-crotchety Noah Webster, who worked to Americanize the English language; the long-bearded lexicographer James A. H. Murray, who devoted his life to a survey of the entire language in the Oxford English Dictionary; and the playwright George Bernard Shaw, who worked without success to make English spelling rational. Grammatical "rules" or "laws" are not like the law of gravity, or even laws against murder and theft--they're more like rules of etiquette, made by fallible people and subject to change. Witty, smart, full of passion for the world's language, Proper Words in Proper Places will entertain and educate in equal measure.
Download or read book The Orphan in Eighteenth Century Law and Literature written by Cheryl L. Nixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Merchant Empires written by James D. Tracy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-13 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on why Europe became the dominant economic force in global trade between 1450 and 1750.
Download or read book Genres of the Credit Economy written by Mary Poovey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money - in other words, participating in the modern financial system - seem like routine activities of everyday life. This book looks at how this came to be the case by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in 18th and 19th century Britain.
Download or read book Ebb Tide in New England written by Elaine Forman Crane and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The status of women in four New England seaports during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is thoroughly documented in this illuminating work.
