Author: Thomas M. Kavanagh
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: eighteenth, lewis, walpole, epicureanism, series, france, pleasures, century, enlightened, new
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2010-03-16
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0300140940
ISBN-13: 9780300140941

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue—a gift to be shared with one’s companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution.  Instead, Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the era put the experience of pleasure at the center of the cultural agenda, leading to advances in both ethics and aesthetics.Kavanagh shows that pleasure is not necessarily hedonistic or op

Author: Ann Jessie van Sant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: eighteenth, century, english, studies, literature, thought, cambridge, social, sensibility, novel, senses, context
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-05-20
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521604583
ISBN-13: 9780521604581

This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with more scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation as they were applied to repentant prostitutes and children of the vagrant and criminal poor. The book goes on to explore the novel’s location of psychological responses to suffering in physical forms. Van

Authors:John Barresi, Raymond Martin,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: century, eighteenth, studies, philosophy, routledge, soul, identity, naturalization, personal
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1999-12-15
List price: $151.00
ISBN-10: 0415216451
ISBN-13: 9780415216456

Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first book to emphasize the enormous intellectual transformation in the eighteenth century, when the religious ’soul’ was replaced first by a philosophical ’self’ and then by a scientific ’mind’. The authors show that many supposedly contemporary theories of the self were actually discussed in the eighteenth century, and recognize the status of William Hazlitt as one o

Author: William G. Shade
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Keywords: century, eighteenth, henry, lawrence, gipson, studies, years, institute, twenty, british, empire, essays, revisioning, five
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 1998-12
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0934223572
ISBN-13: 9780934223577

Author: John Goodridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: century, eighteenth, english, literature, thought, studies, cambridge, rural, poetry, life
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1996-01-26
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0521433819
ISBN-13: 9780521433815

Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has radically changed our view of the role of poetry in the literary culture of the eighteenth century. Here John Goodridge compares poetic accounts of rural labor by James Thomson, Stephen Duck and Mary Collier, and makes a close analysis of John Dyer’s The Fleece. Goodridge goes on to explore the purpose of rural poetry and how it relates to the real world, and reveals an illuminating link between rural poetry and agricultural and folkloric developments of the time.

Authors:Robert J. Anderson, Juliet A. Brodie, Edvar Onsøyen,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: eighteenth, seaweed, symposium, international, applied, phycology, developments, bergen, proceedings, norway, june
Number of Pages: 697
Published: 2007-05-07
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 1402056699
ISBN-13: 9781402056697

The Proceedings of the 18th International Seaweed Symposium provides an invaluable reference to a wide range of fields in applied phycology. Papers cover topics as diverse as systematics, ecology, commercial applications, carbohydrate chemistry and applications, harvesting biology, cultivation and more. Contributions from all parts of the world give the volume exceptional relevance in an increasingly global scientific and commercial climate. Like its predecessors, this volume provides a benchmark of progress in all fields of applied seaweed science and management, and will be referred to for m

Author: Sarah Jordan
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Keywords: culture, literature, century, idleness, eighteenth, studies, bucknell, british, anxieties
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2003-03
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0838755232
ISBN-13: 9780838755235

This book investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century, arguing that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation during this period, one important quality it claimed was industriousness. Because this claim was undermined and complicated by many factors, such as leisure’s importance to class status, idleness was a subject of intense anxiety. Jordan analyzes how the "idleness" of the working classes, the nonwhite races, and women is figured, and she examines the lives and works of two writers especially obsessed with idleness.