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Book The Royal Magazine  Or  Quarterly Bee

Download or read book The Royal Magazine Or Quarterly Bee written by Peter Bayle and published by . This book was released on with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Royal Magazine  Or  Quarterly Bee

Download or read book The Royal Magazine Or Quarterly Bee written by Peter Bayle and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century written by Iona Italia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by both well-known and obscure writers. The book's central theme is the struggle of eighteenth-century journalists to attain literary respectability and the strategies by which editors sought to improve the literary and social status of their publications.

Book Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism

Download or read book Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism written by Brett C. McInelly and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism argues that the eighteenth-century Methodist revival participated in and was produced by a rich textual culture that includes both pro- and anti-Methodist texts; and that Methodism be understood and approached as a rhetorical problem-as a point of contestation and debate resolved through discourse. Methodist belief and practice attracted its share of negative press, and Methodists eagerly (and publically) responded to their critics; and the controversy generated by the revival ensured that Methodism would be conditioned by textual and rhetorical processes, whether in published polemic and apologia, or in private diaries and letters as Methodists navigated the complexities of their spiritual lives and anti-Methodist efforts to undermine their faith. While it may seem obvious to conclude that a controversial movement would be shaped by controversy, Textual Warfare examines the specific ways Methodist belief, practice, and self-understanding were filtered through the anti-Methodist critique; the particular historic and cultural conditions that informed this process; and the overwhelming extent to which Methodism in the eighteenth century was mediated by texts and rhetorical exchange. The proliferation of print media and the relative freedom of the press in the eighteenth century; the extent to which society generally and Methodism specifically promoted literacy; and a cultural sensibility predisposed to open debate on matters of public interest, ensured the development of a public sphere in which individuals came together to deliberate, in conversation and in print, on a range of issues relevant to the larger community. It was within this sphere that Methodist religiosity, including the intensely private nature of spiritual conversion, became matters of civic concern on an unprecedented scale and that Methodism ultimately took its form.

Book A Study in Smollett

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard Swazey Buck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book A Study in Smollett written by Howard Swazey Buck and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals  1620 1800

Download or read book A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals 1620 1800 written by Ronald Salmon Crane and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this very practical aid to the student of the intellectual and social history of England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the authors have given a two-fold bibliography and they have supplied two indexes, the first chronological and the second geographical. It is a broadly inclusive and convenient finding-list of British periodicals. Originally published in 1927. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Book Bibliotheca Dramatica

Download or read book Bibliotheca Dramatica written by William Evans Burton and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies in Philology

Download or read book Studies in Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eighteenth Century Women s Writing and the  Scandalous Memoir

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Women s Writing and the Scandalous Memoir written by Caroline Breashears and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women’s life writings, particularly those labeled “scandalous memoirs.” It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped partially by several innovative memoirs that have received only modest critical attention. Breashears argues that Madame de La Touche’s Apologie and her friend Lady Vane’s Memoirs contributed to the crystallization of this sub-genre at mid-century, and that Lady Vane’s collaboration with Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle resulted in a brilliant experiment in the relationship between gender and genre. It demonstrates that the Memoirs of Catherine Jemmat incorporated influential new strategies for self-justification in response to changing kinship priorities, and that Margaret Coghlan’s Memoirs introduced revolutionary themes that created a hybrid: the political scandalous memoir. This book will therefore appeal to scholars interested in life writing, women’s history, genre theory, and eighteenth-century British literature.

Book The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

Download or read book The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom written by Tobias George Smollett and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1753, this experimental work explores the relations between history and fiction while introducing episodes of Gothic melodrama. Filled with satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of mid-eighteenth-century Europe, the novel reveals Smollett's capacities as a commentator on contemporary life.

Book Tobias Smollett  Scotland s First Novelist

Download or read book Tobias Smollett Scotland s First Novelist written by Paul-Gabriel Boucé and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a look at issues raised not only in Smollett's novels, for which he is usually remembered, but also in other works of this prolific Scottish author.

Book Whores and Highwaymen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory J. Dunston
  • Publisher : Waterside Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1904380751
  • Pages : 683 pages

Download or read book Whores and Highwaymen written by Gregory J. Dunston and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge work of reference. A fresh perspective on a crucial time for courts, policing and punishment. Shows how individuals, concerned parties and vested interests drove many of the era's developments. A colourful account, which captures the essence of the period. Running to nearly 700 pages, this comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and the emergence of London's embryonic modern criminal justice system looks at every aspect of these topics from numerous perspectives and across the eighteenth century. The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of Gregory Durston's title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading justices, an upstart legal profession whose lower orders developed various ways to line their own pockets and magistrates and clerks who often preferred dealing with those cases which attracted fees. The book shows how little was planned by government or the authorities, and how much sprang up due to the efforts of individuals-so that the origins of social control, particularly at a local level, had much to do with personal ideas of morality, class boundaries and perceived threats, serious and otherwise. Based on news reports, Old Bailey and local archives, and other solid records the book weaves a compelling picture of a critical time in English history, through the voices of contemporary observers as well as the best of writings by experts ever since. At its broadest point, the book spans the period from the Glorious Revolution to the early 1820s. It falls into three parts: Crime and the Metropolis-including Metropolitan crime, attitudes to crime and policing, explanations for crime, and criminal law and procedure. Policing-including policing the metropolis, constables, the watch, beadles, the role of the military, and the detection of crime. Justice-including the magistracy and its work, ways of prosecution, trial in the lower and higher courts, and the penal regimes of the day. Whores and Highwaymen concentrates on the Metropolis but also compares other parts of England and Wales. Author Gregory Durston MA, DipL, LLM, PhD, of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, Barrister, studied history for his first degree before turning to the law. He is currently Reader in Law at Kingston University.

Book A Catalogue of Scarce and Valuable Books      Collected in the Summer from Many of the Principal Towns in Flanders and Holland  to which is Added  the Library of the Rev  Mr  Giffard  Prebend of Norwich  and Late of Stoke      Which Will Begin to be Sold this Day     by Thomas Wilcox

Download or read book A Catalogue of Scarce and Valuable Books Collected in the Summer from Many of the Principal Towns in Flanders and Holland to which is Added the Library of the Rev Mr Giffard Prebend of Norwich and Late of Stoke Which Will Begin to be Sold this Day by Thomas Wilcox written by Thomas Wilcox (bookseller.) and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Catalogue of the Large and Valuable Collection of Books     in Francis Noble s Circulating Library  Consisting of Above Twenty Thousand Volumes  Etc

Download or read book A New Catalogue of the Large and Valuable Collection of Books in Francis Noble s Circulating Library Consisting of Above Twenty Thousand Volumes Etc written by Francis NOBLE (Bookseller.) and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature  Volume 2  1660 1800

Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Volume 2 1660 1800 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Book The Vanished Settlers of Greenland

Download or read book The Vanished Settlers of Greenland written by Robert Rix and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness. Yet finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished; and their mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a riddle to scholars ever since. What happened to the lost Viking colonists? For centuries people assumed their descendants could still be living, so expeditions went to find them: to no avail. Robert Rix tells the gripping story of the missing pioneers, placing their poignant history in the context of cultural discourse and imperial politics. Ranging across fiction, poetry, navigation, reception and tales of exploration, he expertly delves into one of the most contested questions in the annals of colonization.