Author: Ireland. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Humble Representation Made to the King's Majesty, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled
Author: Ireland. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Common Law and Enlightenment in England, 1689-1750
Author: Julia RudolphPublisher:
ISBN: 1843838044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The book demonstrates how the 'common law mind' was able to meet the various challenges posed by Enlightenment rationalism and civic and commercial discourse, revealing that the common law played a much wider role beyond the legal world in shaping Enlightenment concepts.
A Preface to Swift
Author: Keith CrookPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317888324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Jonathan Swift's moral and political satires astonished his contemporaries and still have the power to disturb, with their compelling images and unsettling turns of argument, and to delight, with their charm and inventive wit. A Preface to Swift examines the complex appeal of this fierce critic of oppression. While thematically arranged, the text follows a broadly chronological account of Swift's life to show his development as a writer from the prolific and inventive iconoclast to the mature satirist whose enduring memory of past events produced warm friendship as well as strong resentment. It considers in detail his engagement with the corruption of over-secure politicians and his opposition to the easy rationalism of free-thinking pundits. Gulliver's Travels is shown to be a coherent critique of eighteenth-century ideas of science, education and politics in which the order of the books ('the progress of the fable') is highly significant for its whole meaning. While this is a major focus, Keith Crook also discusses a wide range of Swift's other works, including his early satires, his political writings, his poems and his letters. Detailed chronological charts place his life and works in the political and cultural context, and illustrations have been chosen with commentaries to extend the reader's sense of Swift's connections with London, Ireland and his contemporaries. This will be a particularly useful introduction to students who are studying satire as a genre; the early eighteenth-century literary, scientific, philosophical and political context; the representation of women; the political relation of Ireland to England; and the position of the artist within society, especially in connection with the levers of power.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: 1688-1702
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803
Author: The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Author: