The Adventurous Simplicissimus
The Adventurous Simplicissimus

Author: Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1627938982

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The novel follows a boy from the Spessart named Simplicius in the Holy Roman Empire during the 30 Years War as he grows up in the depraved environment and joins the armies of both warring sides, switching allegiances several times. Born to an illiterate peasant family, he is separated from his home by foraging dragoons and is eventually adopted by a forest hermit. He is conscripted at a young age into service, and from there embarks on years of foraging, military triumph, wealth, prostitution, disease, travels to Russia, and countless other adventures.

Dreams in Early Modern England
Dreams in Early Modern England

Author: Janine Riviere

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-04-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1351744135

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Dreams in Early Modern England shows the variety and complexity of the early modern English discourses on dreams, from the role of dreams and dream theory in framing religious, scientific and philosophical debates, to the way that dreams continued to offer important spiritual and supernatural guidance and lastly how ordinary people exercised agency over their lives through interpreting and using dreams. While today we tend to conceptualize dreams and dreaming as largely psychological, this study shows how early modern people understood dreams and dreaming as many different things, most significantly as political, religious, medical, philosophical and supernatural.

Privacy and Print
Privacy and Print

Author: Cecile M. Jagodzinski

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780813918396

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Proposes that the emergence of the concept of privacy as a personal right and the core of individuality is connected in a complex way with the easy availability of printed books and the spread of the ability to read that emerged during the period. Looks at representations of reading and readers, especially women, in devotional books, conversion narratives, personal letters, drama, and the novel. Also explores how privacy became gendered in the early modern periodAnnotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear
A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear

Author: Sergio Starkstein

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783319783482

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There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy. Structured as a historical-philosophical investigation of the concept of fear, this book is not a purely historical analysis of fear but also provides a broad brushwork rendition of the main concepts of fear as presented by selected philosophers and thinkers, and how they have approached its therapy.

Pamela in Her Exalted Condition
Pamela in Her Exalted Condition

Author: Samuel Richardson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-29

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13: 9780521848947

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Pamela in Her Exalted Condition follows the heroine of Richardson's hugely popular first novel into married life. In the process, he explores both the experience of women beyond the stage of courtship and provides a fascinating insight into the social and cultural life of the mid eighteenth century. The first ever scholarly edition of the novel, this volume features a critically edited text, general and textual introductions, full annotations and textual apparatus. Appendices describe all the editions published in Richardson's lifetime as well as early nineteenth-century editions. The original illustrations from the popular octavo edition of 1742 and Richardson's index are reproduced. The publication of this novel in the Cambridge edition allows the sequel to Pamela to take its rightful place in the critical study of Richardson's development as a novelist.

Curious Subjects
Curious Subjects

Author: Hilary M. Schor

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-01-31

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0199928096

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Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity.