The Nonsense of Common-Sense 1737-1738
Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 56
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The Nonsense of Common-Sense
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
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Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nonsense of Common-Sense, 1737-1738 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-04
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780260273260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Nonsense of Common-Sense, 1737-1738 I am obliged to the Earl of Harrowby and to the Viscount Sandon for their graciousness in allowing me to consult the Wort ley Papers, of which I am printing, With their permission, the portions relating to the N onsense of common-sense. The Yale University Library and the Bodleian Library have generously allowed me to reprint their copies of this rare periodical. In addition, the British Museum, Columbia University, the New York Public Library, and the Newberry Library have been cour teous and helpful. Professors John Webster Spargo, Ray W. Frantz, T. M. Cranfill, and Miss Miriam Locke have given me the benefit of their painstaking advice. My personal obligation to several other scholars I have indicated in footnotes. And, finally, I am deeply indebted to Professor George Sherburn of Harvard University for his sympathetic encouragement and um failing assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture
Author: Christoph Henke
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 3110343401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.
Common Sense
Author: Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0674057813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommon sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.
Nonsense of Common Sense
Author: Mary Wortley Montague
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Published: 1984-12-01
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ISBN-13: 9780404507176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndex of English Literary Manuscripts
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Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1998-06-19
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 072012283X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, the third in the series, discusses the works of 11 British 18th-century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use of the MS, and the existence of any published facsimiles. Information is drawn from material in libraries, record offices and private collections throughout the world. The listing of each author's manuscripts is preceded by an introduction. The book records many hitherto unrecorded manuscripts.
English Literature, Volume 2
Author: Louis A. Landa
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 1400877334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo volumes containing the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published in the Philological Quarterly. "An excellent aid to the student of 18th century literature."—Saturday Review. Volume 2, 1939-1950, includes consolidated index for both volumes. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics
Author: Marilyn Morris
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0300210477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader and more public political arena with the growth of political parties, extra-parliamentary political activities, and a partisan print culture. The public’s preoccupation with the personal character of the ruling elite paralleled a growing interest in the interior lives of individuals in histories, novels, and the theater. Newspaper reports of the royal family intensified in intimacy and its members became moral exemplars—most often, paradoxically, when they misbehaved. Ad hominem attacks on political leaders became commonplace; politicians of all affiliations continued to assess one another’s characters based on their success and daring with women and money. And newly popular human-interest journalism promoted the illusion that the personal characters of public figures could be read by appearances.
The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain
Author: Thomas McGeary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1139619470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues that the conventional way of applying Italian opera to contemporary political events and persons by means of allegory and allusion in individual operas is mistaken; nor did partisan politics intrude into the management of the Royal Academy of Music and the Opera of the Nobility. This book shows instead how Senesino, Faustina, Cuzzoni and events at the Haymarket Theatre were used in political allegories in satirical essays directed against the Walpole ministry. Since most operas were based on ancient historical events, the librettos - like traditional histories - could be sources of examples of vice, virtue, and political precepts and wisdom that could be applied to contemporary politics.
