Author: Kate Parker
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611484847
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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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 featured poetry, and the “modern” subjects and objects privileged by “rise of the novel” scholarship are only one part of a world full of animate things and people with indistinct boundaries. Contributors: Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee, Heather Keenleyside, ShelleyKing, Christina Lupton, Kate Parker, Natalie Phillips, Aran Ruth, Wolfram Schmidgen, Joshua Swidzinski, and Courtney Weiss Smith.
Author: Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520248295
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Annotation A lively and entertaining study of early electrical technology, this book brings to life the technologies and inventors--most notably Benjamin Franklin--who forged the way for our modern electrical world.
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: Brian Gee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317133293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his field. In fact, because Francis Watkins came from a landed background, the diversification of his assets enabled him to weather particular business storms - discussed in this book - where colleagues without such an economic cushion, were pushed into bankruptcy or forced to emigrate. He played an important role in one of the most significant legal cases to touch this profession, namely the patenting of the achromatic lens in telescopes. The book explains Watkins's origins, and how and why he was drawn into partnership with the famous Dollond firm, who at that point were Huguenot incomers. The patent for the achromatic telescope has never been satisfactorily explained in the literature, and the author has gone back to the original legal documents, never before consulted. He teases out the problems, lays out the evidence, and comes to some interesting new conclusions, showing the Dollonds as hard-headed and ruthless businessmen, ultimately extremely successful. The latter part of the book accounts for the successors of Francis Watkins, and their decline after over a century of successful business in central London.
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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