Author: James MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Travels of the Imagination; a true Journey from Newcastle to London in a Stage-Coach: with observations upon the Metropolis. By J ames M urray
Author: James MurrayDepression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 4
Author: Leigh Wetherall DicksonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040248837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Author: The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Sir Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
The Sublime
Author: Karl AxelssonPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039111077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The appeal of the sublime in the minds of British critics and poets during the eighteenth century holds a unique position in the history of aesthetics. At no other time has aesthetics displayed a similar interest in the experience of the sublime. This book explores the impulses behind the fascination for that experience. The Greek treatise Peri Hupsous by Longinus constitutes the earliest source for the experience of the sublime, and as such it shaped much of British eighteenth-century criticism. But the attraction of the sublime received stimulus from other sources as well. In the effort to expand the context of the sublime, the author considers the incentives provided not only by Longinus, but also by the criticism of intellectual literature during the second half of the seventeenth century; a body of criticism that was not primarily concerned with the sublime, but which nevertheless served as an important link to its subsequent appeal.
Knowing Books
Author: Christina LuptonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts' production. In Knowing Books Lupton examines a variety of eighteenth-century sources, including sermons, graffiti, philosophical texts, and magazines, which illustrate the range and character of mid-century experiments with words announcing their status as physical objects. Books that "know" their own presence on the page and in the reader's hand become, in Lupton's account, tantalizing objects whose entertainment value competes with that of realist narrative. Knowing Books introduces these mid-eighteenth-century works as part of a long history of self-conscious texts being greeted as fashionable objects. Poststructuralist and Marxist approaches to literature celebrate the consciousness of writing and economic production as belonging to revolutionary understandings of the world, but authors of the period under Lupton's gaze expose the facts of mediation without being revolutionary. On the contrary, their explication of economic and material processes shores up their claim to material autonomy and economic success. Lupton uses media theory and close reading to suggest the desire of eighteenth-century readers to attribute sentience to technologies and objects that entertain them. Rather than a historical study of print technology, Knowing Books offers a humanist interpretation of the will to cede agency to media. This horizon of theoretical engagement makes Knowing Books at once an account of the least studied decades of the eighteenth century and a work of relevance for those interested in new attitudes toward media in the twenty-first.
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts, Books, Roman and Other Antiquities Belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon TynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description