Author: Aubrey de la Motraye
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Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Author: Aubry de La Mottraye
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Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 928

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Author: Gary Kates
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350277665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout. Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the 'erudite blockbuster', which for the first time in European history, helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, as well as incorporating the responses of both ordinary men and women as part of the reception histories that are so integral to the volume.

Author: Voltaire
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Noelle Gallagher
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526130165
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Historical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early eighteenth century English historical writing. Highlighting the wide variety of historical works being printed and read in England between the years 1660 and 1740, it demonstrates that many of the genres that we now view primarily as literary – verse satire and panegyric, memoir, scandal and chronicle – were also being used to represent historical phenomena. In surveying some of this period’s 'historical literatures', it argues that many satirists, secret historians and memoirists made their choice of historical subject matter a topic of explicit commentary, presenting themselves as historians or inscribing their works in an English historical tradition. By responding to other varieties of history in this self-conscious way, writers like Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Delarivier Manley, Daniel Defoe and John Evelyn were able to pioneer influential new techniques for representing their nation’s past.

Author: Woburn (Mass.)
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Category : Woburn (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 896

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Author: Woburn (Mass.)
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Category : Municipal government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 860

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Author: Edward Walford
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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