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  • The Barbarous Feast

    Eating and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century World

    de Sophie Gee ...
    A bold new argument about how eating rituals across the eighteenth-century globe reveal an untold story about the rise of the novelIn The Barbarous Feast, Sophie Gee argues that novels and eating rituals were interconnected, but conflicting, systems used to depict selfhood and represent personal inwardness in colonial Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Gee tells a vibrant story of how people ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Scandal of the Season

    A Novel

    de Sophie Gee ...
    From author of The Barbarous Feast comes a sparkling literary novel set in 18th-century London that follows the young poet Alexander Pope and the grand, ill-fated love affair between Arabella Fermor and Lord Petre that inspired his most famous poem, “The Rape of the Lock”.London, 1711. As the rich, young offspring of the city’s most fashionable families fill their days with masquerade balls and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Making Waste

    Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

    de Sophie Gee ...
    The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe, catalog, and memorialize the waste matter that their social and political worlds wanted to get rid of—from the theological dregs in Paradise Lost to ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered

    de Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee, Heather Keenleyside, Shelley King, Christina Lupton, Natalie Phillips, Aran Ruth, Wolfram Schmidgen, Joshua Swidzinski ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. Thenovel poached from and ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • The Rape of the Lock

    de Alexander Pope ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEEA hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors...Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature. ... Leer más

    $7.29 USD

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    The Scandal of the Season

    de Sophie Gee ...
    Narrado por Cameron Stewart ...

    Completo

    10 hora 6 minutos

    Jane Austen meets Philip Roth in a sexy, sparkling debut novel reconstructing the real-life scandal that inspired Alexander Pope's famous poem "The Rape of the Lock."London, 1711. The rich young offspring of the city's fashionable families fill their days with masquerade balls, opera engagements, and clandestine courtships. Leading the pursuit of pleasure are the beautiful Arabella Fermor, with ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • Holstun Pamphlet Wars

    Prose in the English Revolution

    Edición de James Holstun ...
    The English Revolution of 1642-60 produced an explosion of stylistically and ideologically diverse pamphlet literature. The essays collected here focus on the prose of this new revolutionary era, and the new public sphere it helped to create. They cover a wide range of topics including the Royalist attack on the Sectarian Babel and the street theatre of the Ranters. ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Sweetness and Power

    The Place of Sugar in Modern History

    de Sidney W. Mintz ...
    A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • Greatest Love Poems

    de Madeleine Edgar ...
    Presented in an accessible and easy-reference format, Greatest Love Poems includes over 220 poems by a wide range of famous and lesser-known authors from different periods of history. These are divided into five themed sections, including:• Romance• Poems for Marriage• Unrequited Love• Long Distance Love• Lost LoveFeaturing short biographies of every author, this beautiful edition allows you to ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • What Is History, Now?

    de Suzannah Lipscomb, Helen Carr ...
    This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and emerging voices, this is the history book we need NOW.WHAT ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Flesh in the Age of Reason

    de Roy Porter ...
    'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his ... Leer más

    $22.09 USD

  • Hume

    A Very Short Introduction

    de James A. Harris ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a sceptic whose arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality, and who put the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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