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Murky waters
British spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature
By Sophie Vasset
Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7882-4
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Pre-OrderAgents of European overseas empires
Private colonisers, 1450-1800
Edited by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L. H. Roper, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Agnès Delahaye
Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6733-0
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£90.00
Buy NowEdward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters
Edited by Greg Miller and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
George Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together. ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6409-4
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£85.00
Buy NowChanging satire
Transformations and continuities in Europe, 1600-1830
Edited by Cecilia Rosengren, Per Sivefors and Rikard Wingård
This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4611-3
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£90.00
Buy NowReligion and life cycles in early modern England
Edited by Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse
Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4923-7
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£90.00
Buy NowPeople and piety
Protestant devotional identities in early modern England
Edited by Elizabeth Clarke and Robert W. Daniel
This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, the book examines the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5012-7
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£85.00
Buy NowBellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century
Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon and Sophie Vasset
This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4796-7
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£26.00
Buy NowThe challenge of the sublime
From Burke's Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic art
By Hélène Ibata
This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1741-0
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Buy NowWriting and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century
Edited by John Baker, Marion Leclair and Allan Ingram
The injunction, 'Know thyself!', resounding down the centuries, has never lost its appeal and urgency. The 'self' remains an abiding and universal concern, something at once intimate, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2336-7
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£90.00
Buy NowRadical voices, radical ways
Articulating and disseminating radicalism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain
Edited by Laurent Curelly and Nigel Smith
This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3432-5
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£26.00
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