Author: J. A. Leo Lemay
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812238540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Representing a lifetime of research by the dean of Franklin scholars, this seven-volume biography will give enthusiasts and scholars an important resource for understanding Benjamin Franklin's character and place in American history. This first volume chronicles the early years of Franklin, from his birth to his marriage in 1730.
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1
Author: J. A. Leo Lemay
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812238540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Representing a lifetime of research by the dean of Franklin scholars, this seven-volume biography will give enthusiasts and scholars an important resource for understanding Benjamin Franklin's character and place in American history. This first volume chronicles the early years of Franklin, from his birth to his marriage in 1730.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812238540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Representing a lifetime of research by the dean of Franklin scholars, this seven-volume biography will give enthusiasts and scholars an important resource for understanding Benjamin Franklin's character and place in American history. This first volume chronicles the early years of Franklin, from his birth to his marriage in 1730.
Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association
Author: Friends' Historical Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia
Materializing New Media
Author: Anna Munster
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682940
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682940
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies
Catalogue of an Extensive and Valuable Collection of Books ... which Will be Sold by Auction ... by John Maclachlan ... Edinburgh ... 15th February, 1819, Etc
Author: John Maclachlan (of Edinburgh.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A New Catalogue of the Large and Valuable Collection of Books ... in Francis Noble's Circulating Library: Consisting of Above Twenty Thousand Volumes, Etc
Author: Francis NOBLE (Bookseller.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A General Catalogue of Valuable and Rare Old Books, in the Ancient and Modern Languages, and Various Classes of Literature
Author: Longman (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books Printed in England Since the Dreadful Fire of London, 1666 to the End of Michaelmas Term, 1695
Author: Robert Clavell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A catalogue of books
Eighteenth-century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder
Author: Sarah Tindal Kareem
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199689105
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century British fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder argues that wonder is integral to--rather than antithetical to--the developing techniques of novelistic fiction. Positioning its reader on the cusp between recognition and estrangement, between faith and doubt, modern fiction hinges upon wonder. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder's chapters unfold its new account of British fiction's rise through surprising new readings of classic early novels-from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey--as well as bringing to attention lesser known works, most notably Rudolf Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels. In this bold new account, the eighteenth century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's re-location from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a re-evaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199689105
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century British fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder argues that wonder is integral to--rather than antithetical to--the developing techniques of novelistic fiction. Positioning its reader on the cusp between recognition and estrangement, between faith and doubt, modern fiction hinges upon wonder. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder's chapters unfold its new account of British fiction's rise through surprising new readings of classic early novels-from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey--as well as bringing to attention lesser known works, most notably Rudolf Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels. In this bold new account, the eighteenth century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's re-location from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a re-evaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.