The New Eighteenth Century
Author | : Felicity Nussbaum |
Publisher | : Methuen Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Felicity Nussbaum |
Publisher | : Methuen Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roger Lonsdale |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0191501425 |
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period's restraints and inhibitions.
Author | : Michèle Lalande |
Publisher | : ABRAMS |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Whoever said "Everything old is new again" could have been talking about French Pompadour Style. The flamboyant, opulent, refined aesthetic -- so characteristic of the eighteenth century -- has enjoyed a spectacular revival in recent years. In "The New Eighteenth-Century Style," journalist Michhle Lalande and photographer Gilles Trillard, both experts in the field of interior dicor, survey 30 examples of this quintessential blending of exquisite detail and ostentatious affluence. From lush velvet upholstery to the emblematic use of turquoise with gold accents, these perfectly captured interiors beguile the reader with well-worn extravagance. In an era of "shabby chic" the more refined, more pristine accents of Pompadour may be just what the world of interior dicor needs -- and this beautiful book provides an indispensable guide.
Author | : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804746939 |
An Economist Book of the Year, 2001. In the 18th century, a debate ensued over the French naturalist Buffon’s contention that the New World was in fact geologically new. Historians, naturalists, and philosophers clashed over Buffon’s view. This book maintains that the “dispute” was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should naturalists and historians reconstruct the history of the New World and its people. In addressing this question, the author offers a strikingly novel interpretation of the Enlightenment.
Author | : Jacob Sider Jost |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813945062 |
Can a single word explain the world? In the British eighteenth century, interest comes close: it lies at the foundation of the period’s thinking about finance, economics, politics, psychology, and aesthetics. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century provides the first comprehensive account of interest in an era when a growing national debt created a new class of rentiers who lived off of interest, the emerging discipline of economics made self-interest an axiom of human behavior, and booksellers began for the first time to market books by calling them "interesting." Sider Jost reveals how the multiple meanings of interest allowed writers to make connections—from witty puns to deep structural analogies—among different spheres of eighteenth-century life. Challenging a long and influential tradition that reads the eighteenth century in terms of individualism, atomization, abstraction, and the hegemony of market-based thinking, this innovative study emphasizes the importance of interest as an idiom for thinking about concrete social ties, at court and in families, universities, theaters, boroughs, churches, and beyond. To "be in the interest of" or "have an interest with" another was a crucial relationship, one that supplied metaphors and habits of thought across the culture. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century recovers the small, densely networked world of Hanoverian Britain and its self-consciously inventive language for talking about human connection.
Author | : Felicity Nussbaum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780415904742 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807834874 |
The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
Author | : Michèle Lalande |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780810998674 |
Exploring interiors of breezy elegance, where Pop Art and industrial design mingle with patinaed highboys and carved candelabra, this book reinvents classic elements of French style, making the old new all over again.
Author | : Susan Naquin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300046021 |
During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation of the social history of China during this period--one of the most dynamic periods in China's early modern era. "A lucid, original, and scholarly summary of the social, economic, and demographic history of China's last great period of glory. This will be an important book for students of Chinese history."--Jonathan Spence, Yale University "Engaging, complex, and elegantly written. . . . Absorbing and valuable: a thorough, unique, and richly detailed account of the social forms and cultural and religious life of the people."--Choice " An] interesting and well-informed survey of China between about 1680 and 1820."--W.J.F. Jenner, Asian Affairs "I would be a very odd scholar or general reader who could not derive profit from reading this elegant and painstaking survey of the social, cultural, and economic life of the Qing empire in its apparent prime. . . . A superb survey which readers may absorb and cherish."--Alexander Woodside, Pacific Affairs "A highly readable synthesis of recent secondary literature on the subject."--William S. Atwell, Journal of Asian Studies "Their coverage is comprehensive and their writing is clear and lucid. reading this book obtains one a very broad, yet penetrative, view of Chinese society at the time."--Alan P.L. Liu, Asian Thought & Society "The ground covered by this book is vast. . . . Its very breadth conveys with great clarity the extent of current knowledge of premodern China: it also serves as an excellent introduction to the social history of the Qing dynasty."--Hugh D.R. Baker, China Quarterly "This is a most challenging work and ambitious work. . . . Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century give both the general reader and also the historian who does not study China a tool for grounding himself or herself in the basic patterns and trends that could be found in eighteenth century China as well as in the problems the specialists are now exploring. The book is also of great value to students of traditional and modern China, for it serves to synthesize much of the new literature on China in the High Qing. Thus it serves the 'China hand' as a state of the field essay that shows just where we are even as it suggests directions for future research."--Murray A. Rubinstein, American Asian Review "This excellent book provides an intelligent summary our rapidly changing understanding of Chinese society in a crucial century of political stability and economic and demographic expansion. Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski are distinguished contributors to the field, energetically engaged in its multinational communication networks."--John E. Wills, Jr., American Historical Review
Author | : Felicity Nussbaum |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2005-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801882692 |
These essays explore both literal and metaphorical crossings of the globe, addressing the cultural significance of maps, paintings, travel writing, tourist manuals, cultural identities, island gardens, and other topics in order to lend insight to our perception of global culture during the long 18th century.