Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25
Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25

Author: Nicholas Mason

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-07-31

Total Pages: 2205

ISBN-13: 1040156177

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Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and entertaining texts which appeared in the "Blackwood's Magazine" between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of "Blackwood's Magazine".

Adam Blair
Adam Blair

Author: John Gibson Lockhart

Publisher: The Saltire Society

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780854110964

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As well as a psychological study of a tormented soul, 'Adam Blair' throws light on Scottish society at the end of the 18th century when the rigidities of a puritanical past were slowly giving way to a more moderate and modern outlook.

The Books of Nature and Scripture
The Books of Nature and Scripture

Author: J.E. Force

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9401732493

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Dick Popkin and James Force have attended a number of recent conferences where it was apparent that much new and important research was being done in the fields of interpreting Newton's and Spinoza's contributions as biblical scholars and of the relationship between their biblical scholarship and other aspects of their particular philosophies. This collection represents the best current research in this area. It stands alone as the only work to bring together the best current work on these topics. Its primary audience is specialised scholars of the thought of Newton and Spinoza as well as historians of the philosophical ideas of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England

Author: Alanna Skuse

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-11

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1137487534

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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body – remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.

I Recall: Collections and Recollections
I Recall: Collections and Recollections

Author: Robert Henderson Croll

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13:

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I Recall: Collections and Recollections is a memoir by Robert Henderson Croll. Croll was an Australian author, lyricist, bushwalker, and civic servant. Excerpt: "Central Australia, where I have now been five times, was long a place of desire. When my Sister Elizabeth and her husband, Albert Watts, went to live at Quorn, a township sitting at the foot of the Flinders Range in South Australia, I paid her two visits. They quickened my wish to see more of the remarkable country on the edge of which Quorn is placed. That was some forty years ago. The first, a Spring journey, left two vivid memories. One is of the seemingly endless fields of young wheat which made much of South Australia so beautiful just then; the other is of a shooting trip to which we were invited. Our hosts were two young men of the district, tall and powerful, sons of a German settler. The conveyance was a light open cart with one fixed seat which held the two brothers. Behind them, a board rested its ends on the sides of the cart and was secured to the front seat by a stout rope."