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  • The Trouble with Ownership

    Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 166-173

    de Jody Greene ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Copyright and intellectual property issues are intricately woven into any written work, but the precise nature of this relationship has plagued authors, printers, and booksellers for centuries. What does it mean to own the products of our intellectual labors in our own time? And what was the meaning three centuries ago, when copyright laws were first put into place?Jody Greene argues that while ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • Adam Smith

    An Enlightened Life

    de Nicholas Phillipson ...
    Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • The Levellers

    Radical political thought in the English Revolution

    de Rachel Foxley ...
    Series series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Authoring the Self

    Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth

    de Scott Hess ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain.Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book ... Leer más

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  • Liberty as Independence

    The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

    de Quentin Skinner ...
    What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to early modern Britain, culminating in the claims of the Whig oligarchy to have transformed this idea into ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    de Kenneth R. Johnston ...
    Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars against republican France. Liberal young writers and intellectuals whose enthusiasm for the American and ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD

  • Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries

    de Alison A. Chapman ...
    John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing Roman, common, and ecclesiastical law to best suit his purpose in any given text. This book provides literary scholars with a working ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Left Wing Democracy in the English Civil War - A Study of the Social Philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley

    de David W. Petegorsky ...
    Originally published in the 1930s, this book contains a comprehensive study of the social philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Contents include: The Background of the Civil War; The Development of Radical Political Thought During the Civil War; The Digger Movement; The Political and Social Philosophy of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700

    Edición de Lorna Hutson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as ... Leer más

    $42.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

    Edición de Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

    de Christopher W. Brooks ...
    Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

    Edición de Pamela Clemit ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD