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18 de may. de 2024 · In the process the eighteenth-century fop is exposed as a primarily literary concoction, emerging from the Restoration stage, whose characteristics included a perhaps surprising heterosexual adventurism, in combination with the more familiar characteristics of vanity and behavioural precision. Carter's reassessment is both welcome and long overdue.
Hace 2 días · The main argument in Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour turns this question on its head. As Goldsmith asserts, ‘The Grand Tour occurred precisely because of the difficulties and dangers involved, rather than in spite of them’ (p.27). Parting from notions of danger as threat, her archival study shows that danger was ...
14 de may. de 2024 · Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Chadwyck-Healey) A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles. Key figures covered include Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift. In addition to a scanned version of Sterne ...
13 de may. de 2024 · Eighteenth Century Collections Online contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800; ... Everyday Life & Women in America c.1800-1920 showcases unique primary source material for the study of American social, ...
18 de may. de 2024 · Of special significance in this context is her case study on women and medicine in 20th-century Birmingham which features in chapter eight. Watts has set herself a very ambitious task. ... 'Radical networks in education and science in Britain from the mid-eighteenth century to c. 1815' is the subject of the following chapter.
Hace 2 días · Until recently it was claimed that green tea, as opposed to black tea, dominated the British market during the early decades of the eighteenth century. But if green tea was the market leader for a short period of time, by the 1720s black tea held an equal place, and by the 1760s it had achieved dominance in the commercial markets.
