Author: Jean Pierre de CROUSAZ
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Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book Room
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Library Resources, inc
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Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Author: Samuel Johnson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288

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Author: Myra Reynolds
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Christina Lupton
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read? Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century—when working hours increased and lighter and quicker forms of reading (newspapers, magazines, broadsheets) surged in popularity—the material form of the codex book invited readers to situate themselves creatively in time. Drawing on letters, diaries, reading logs, and a range of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels, Christina Lupton’s Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century concretely describes how book-readers of the past carved up, expanded, and anticipated time. Placing canonical works by Elizabeth Inchbald, Henry Fielding, Amelia Opie, and Samuel Richardson alongside those of lesser-known authors and readers, Lupton approaches books as objects that are good at attracting particular forms of attention and paths of return. In contrast to the digital interfaces of our own moment and the ephemeral newspapers and pamphlets read in the 1700s, books are rarely seen as shaping or keeping modern time. However, as Lupton demonstrates, books are often put down and picked up, they are leafed through as well as read sequentially, and they are handed on as objects designed to bridge temporal distances. In showing how discourse itself engages with these material practices, Lupton argues that reading is something to be studied textually as well as historically. Applying modern theorists such as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, and Bernard Stiegler, Lupton offers a rare phenomenological approach to the study of a concrete historical field. This compelling book stands out for the combination of archival research, smart theoretical inquiry, and autobiographical reflection it brings into play.

Author: John Mackinnon Robertson
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Author: Gianni Paganini
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401701318
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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This collection of articles (the Vercelli conference proceedings) places the theme of scepticism within its philosophical tradition. It explores the English philosophical thinkers, the French context, as well as major Italian figures and Spanish culture. It pays special attention to the relationships between history of philosophical ideas and the problems rising from the history of sciences (medicine, physics, linguistics, historical scholarship) in the 17th and the18th centuries.