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Medievalism: the Middle Ages in modern England
eBook. English.
Published
New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 2007
Presenting the history of the Medieval Revival, this is an account of its social, political, religious, architectural and artistic aspects, especially...
Disease and death in eighteenth-century literature and culture: fashioning the unfashionable
eBook. English.
Published
London: Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as...
Eighteenth-century Ireland: the isle of slaves
eBook. English.
Published
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2009
The 18th century is in many ways the most problematic decade in Irish history. Traditionally, the years from 1700-1760 have been short-changed by historians...
Gender, pregnancy and power in eighteenth-century literature: the maternal imagination
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
This work reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery...
A companion to eighteenth-century Britain
eBook. English.
Published
Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell, 2006
This volume highlights the developments that lead to Britain becoming the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically...
Napoleon the Great
eBook. English.
Published
UK: Penguin Books, 2015
Presents the biography of Napoleon who lived one of the extraordinary of all human lives. This book shows how after seizing power in a coup d'etat he...
John Keats and the medical imagination
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Presenting ten chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, this text begins with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary...
British romanticism, climate change, and the anthropocene: writing tambora
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. This book is the first major ecocritical...
Literature, electricity and politics 1740-1840: 'electrick communication every where'
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
This title investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. This book investigates...
The progress of romance: the politics of popular fiction
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2016
First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous...
