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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
The Works of Aphra Behn: v. 4: Seneca Unmask'd and Other Prose Translated
Author: Janet ToddPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351259180
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the fourth volume in a set of seven which comprises a complete edition of all her works.
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, Esq., to the Bodleian Library
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Wonder and Science
Author: Mary Baine CampbellPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501705067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences—particularly geography, astronomy, and anthropology—from the writing of fiction. Campbell's learned and brilliantly perceptive new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographies, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. Among the authors she discusses are André Thevet, Thomas Hariot, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn. Campbell's emphasis is on developments in England and France, but she considers works in languages other than English or French which were well known in the polyglot book culture of the time. With over thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography.
A Dissertation on the Passions
Author: David HumePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199251886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Tom Beauchamp presents the definitive scholarly edition of two famous works by David Hume, both originally published in 1757. In A Dissertation on the Passions Hume sets out his original view of the nature and central role of passion and emotion. The Natural History of Religion is a landmark work in the study of religion as a natural phenomenon.
Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)
Author: Edward GibbonPublisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 1910630764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 7906
Book Description
Edward Gibbon’s monumental ‘History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ charts the course of Western civilisation from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium. Published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, Gibbon’s magnum opus is celebrated for its ironic prose, use of primary sources and its bold open criticism of organised religion. For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents Gibbon’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Gibbon’s life and works * Detailed introductions to the history works and other texts * ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ is presented with the original footnotes and a detailed table of contents – ideal for students * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Features ‘Miscellaneous Essays’, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Rare works often missed out of collections * Includes Gibbon’s letters - spend hours exploring the historian’s personal correspondence * Gibbon’s autobiography * Features a bonus biography - discover Gibbon’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: there are no known translations of Gibbon’s obscure early work ‘Memoires litteraires de la Grande Bretagne’ in the public domain. When a translation becomes available, it will be added to the eBook as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The History THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS The Essays ESSAI SUR L’ÉTUDE DE LA LITTÉRATURE CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE SIXTH BOOK OF THE ÆNEID MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS The Letters PRIVATE LETTERS OF EDWARD GIBBON, 1753-1794 The Autobiography MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS The Biography GIBBON by James Cotter Morison Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
THE AMERICAN CYCLOPAEDIA:
Author: GEORGE RIPLEYEncyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution
Author: Wilbur ApplebaumPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135582564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature, of the universe, and of our place in it is said to have emerged. Covering the historiography of the period, discussions of the Scientific Revolution's impact on its contemporaneous disciplines, and in-depth analyses of the importance of historical context to major developments in the sciences, The Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution is an indispensible resource for students and researchers in the history and philosophy of science.
A catalogue of the library of ... John, duke of Roxburghe, which will be sold, by auction, in ... Kelso, Sept. 16, 1813 and the [blank] following days
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Author: John Ker (3rd duke of Roxburghe.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
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Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Fringes of Belief
Author: Sarah EllenzweigPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804769796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Ellenzweig aims to redress this scholarly lacuna, arguing that a literature of English freethinking has been overlooked because it unexpectedly supported aspects of institutional religion. Analyzing works by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, she foregrounds a strand of the English freethinking tradition that was suspicious of revealed religion yet often strongly opposed to the open denigration of Anglican Christianity and its laws. By exposing the contradictory and volatile status of categories like belief and doubt this book participates in the larger argument in Enlightenment studies—as well as in current scholarship on the condition of modernity more generally—-that religion is not so simply left behind in the shift from the pre-modern to the modern world.