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af: David Worrall
This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for ...
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af: David J Cox
Presents an account and analysis of the history if the Bow Street 'Runners', precursors of today's police force. This book provides a fresh insight into their history, arguing that the use of Bow Stre...
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The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities. 0...
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af: George Taylor
This 2001 book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars....
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af: John Seed & Ian Haywood
A new and controversial perspective on the causes, personalities and consequences of the most devastating urban riots in British history. 17 b/w illus....
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af: George Taylor
This 2001 book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars....
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af: Tom L Beauchamp
Focuses on David Hume's "Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals". An introduction sets the work in its historical context, the annotation and glossary provide information about Hume's sources, al...
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af: Miles Ogborn
This text provides a reinterpretation of London during a period of dramatic change, and presents ways of understanding the coming modernity through the transformation of urban landscapes. Illustration...
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af: Seamus Deane
af: David J Cox
This book provides an account and analysis of the history of the Bow Street Runners, precursors of today's police force. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of both qualitative and quantitativ...
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af: Edmund Fairfax
76.95 45 line art drawings, bibliography, index, footnotes...
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Aaron Hill was one of the most lively cultural patrons and brokers on the London literary scene - an image hard to square with the company of undistinguished scribblers to which Pope relegated him in ...
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af: Jonathan Barry
Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how ...
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af: J. M. Opal
af: Lynn Hunt
Scholars from art history, history, and literature examine the frequent intersections between the body erotic and the body politic. 1, black & white illustrations...
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Considers Romanticism as a truly international phenomenon. Taking cue from David Wilkie's appeal in 1824 'to show that the arts are cosmopolitan and that all national prejudice is foreign to them', th...
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af: Norah Lofts
Forced to flee Revolutionary France after the brutal guillotining of her beloved father, Isabella de Savigny arrives at Nethergate, the Suffolk house of her cousin, hoping for sympathy and succour. In...
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af: Keith Thomas
The Ends of Life examines the ways in which English men and women between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries sought to lead fulfilling lives. In doing so it illuminates the central valu...
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af: Cathryn J Pearce
Shows how the image of Cornish wreckers as villains deliberately luring ships on to the rocks is a myth. 13, 13 line drawing...
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af: Helen Clifford
120 b+w ill. 60col.ill....
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The work of German poet Frederich Holderlin (1770-1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers, from Paul Celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. This biography...
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af: S L Kotar & J E Gessler
af: Keith Thomas
The Ends of Life examines the ways in which English men and women between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries sought to lead fulfilling lives. In doing so it illuminates the central valu...
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af: Jonathan Israel
Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in...
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af: Stephen Clarke
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses. This title draws on a remarkable array of surviving images of the Printing House, ...
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af: Katrina Honeyman
A particularly supply of child workers was via the parish apprenticeship trade, whereby pauper children could move from the 'care' of poor law officialdom to the 'care' of early industrial textile ent...
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This book documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. It focuses on the rise of new moral and spiritual values and the struggle to...
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af: Thomas Sokoll
As personal testimonies of people claiming relief, often written in a 'private' tone, pauper letters allow deep insights into the living conditions, experiences and attitudes of the labouring poor in ...
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af: Thomas Sokoll
The immensely rich archives from the administration of the English poor law before 1834 include letters to the overseers of the poor that came from the poor themselves. This edition contains 750 of th...
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af: Vivien Greene
This book documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. It focuses on the rise of new moral and spiritual values and the struggle to...
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af: Rosalin Barker
Provides a huge amount of detail about everyday maritime life in the important port of Whitby, home port of Captain Cook. 20, 20 black and white...
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af: Nicholas Clee
Epsom Downs, 3rd May, 1769: a chestnut with a white blaze scorches across the turf towards the finishing post. His four rivals are so far behind him that, in racing terms, they are 'nowhere'. Watching...
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af: Amanda Vickery
Based on a close examination of letters, diaries and account books, this study offers an insight into the intimate and everyday lives of genteel women and transforms our understanding of the position ...
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af: Steven Parissien
This text explores key motifs of style in the design of Palladian villas in early Georgian England, such as Marble Hill and Stourhead, and in 18th-century America. The book incorporates the decorative...
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Dr William Stukeley (1687-1765) was the most renowned English antiquary of the eighteenth century. This study discusses his life and achievements, placing him within his intellectual milieu, which he ...
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af: Kathleen Kete
af: Robert L. Mack
A biography of Thomas Gray, exploring the life of the English poet and our understanding of his personality and influential body of work. Robert L. Mack draws in developments in 18th-century studies a...
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