Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth-century Society

Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth-century Society

Author: Regina Hewitt

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780838755013

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The essays in this volume use the concept of heresy to gain insight into the value of social order during the eighteenth century. By applying the vocabulary of religion to behaviours that might more usually be studied as deviance, the contributors can account for the complexity and vehemence of conflicts over right order played out in the literary, artistic, and political arenas of the age. The essays examine a range of cultural encounters between orthodox and heterodox figures.


Literary Memory

Literary Memory

Author: Catherine Jones

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780838755396

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"Theoretically and historically grounded, Literary Memory will appeal to all those interested in the writings of Scott, the Scottish Enlightenment, Romantic cultural history, the history of the novel, narrative theory, and literature in relation to psychology and psychoanalysis."--BOOK JACKET.


Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism

Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism

Author: Ziad Elmarsafy

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780838755488

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This book explores the concept of freedom by reading the works of Corneille, Pascal, and Racine as political theories in the guise of literature. Within this framework, a certain model quickly becomes apparent, namely that of absolute sovereignty as the guarantor of freedom. The three writers under consideration share the view that freedom is ensured only by absolute authority rather than the absence of such authority. From Corneille, who modulates freedom through an erotic link to the monarch as a means through which the glorious individual is brought into the state's fold, to Pascal, who traces the liberation of the will via absolute submission to God, to Racine, for whom absolute submission to the most Christian king is the only route to political and personal salvation, Elmarsafy studies a politics of taking charge that differs markedly form the contemporary orthodoy that privileges individual freedom.


Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science

Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science

Author: Peter Walmsley

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780838755433

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This book shows how, in his enormously influential 'Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natrual philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind. With the help of Locke's notebooks, letters and journals, Peter Walmsley reconstructs Locke's scientific career, including his early work with the chemist Robert Boyle and the physician Thomas Sydenham. He also shows how the 'Essay' embodies in its form and language many of the preoccupations of the science of its day, from the emerging discourses of experimentation and empirical taxonomy to developments in embryology and the history of trades. The result is a new reading of Locke, one that shows both his brilliance as a writer and his originality in turning to science to effect a radical reinvention of the study of the mind.


Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

Author: David Duff

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780838756188

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The book offers an exciting new map of the cultural geography of the Romantic era, and establishes a dynamic methodology for future comparative work."--BOOK JACKET.


Designing Women

Designing Women

Author: Tita Chico

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780838756058

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"Drawing on extensive archival research, Chico argues that the dressing room embodies contradictory connotations, linked to the eroticism and theatricality of the playhouse tiring-room as well as to the learning and privilege of the gentleman's closet.


Through the Keyhole

Through the Keyhole

Author: Susan C. Law

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2015-04-06

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0750964510

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Scandal existed long before celebrity gossip columns, often hidden behind the closed doors of the Georgian aristocracy. But secrets were impossible to keep in a household of servants who listened at walls and spied through keyholes. The early mass media pounced on these juicy tales of adultery, eager to cash in on the public appetite for sensation and expose the shocking moral corruption of the establishment. Drawing on a rich collection of original and often outrageous sources, this book brings vividly to life stories of infidelity in high places – passionate, scandalous, poignant and tragic. It reveals how the flood of print detailing sordid sexual intrigues created a national outcry and made people question whether the nobility was fit to rule. Susan C. Law is a journalist and historian. Her work has been published in a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including The Times Higher Education Supplement, BBC History Magazine and London Evening Standard. Dr Law completed her PhD in History at Warwick University, and has spent many years researching the 18th and 19th century aristocracy, servants, family life and country houses.


British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman’s Magazine', 1731 to 1815

British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman’s Magazine', 1731 to 1815

Author: Gillian Williamson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-27

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1137542330

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The Gentleman's Magazine was the leading eighteenth-century periodical. By integrating the magazine's history, readers and contents this study shows how 'gentlemanliness' was reshaped to accommodate their social and political ambitions.


Civilians and War in Europe, 1618-1815

Civilians and War in Europe, 1618-1815

Author: Erica Charters

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1846317118

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Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the role of civilians in early modern warfare, from the Thirty Years War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Drawing on works by scholars in art, literature, history, and political theory, the contributors to this volume explore the continuities and transformations in warfare over the course of two hundred years, examining topics central to civilian and war dynamics, including incarceration, cultures of plunder, billeting, and wartime atrocities, in addition to the larger legal practices and philosophical underpinnings of warfare and its aftermath. Showcasing the complex ways civilians were involved in war—not just as anguished sufferers, but as individuals who fought back, who profited, and who negotiated for their own needs—Civilians and War in Europe probes what it meant to be a civilian in countries deeply involved in conflict.