Author: Graham Midgley
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300068139
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This social history of academic life in 18th-century Oxford presents an account of the activities of students and dons at the university: the often inordinate eating and drinking; life in the senior common rooms; the struggles with authority; the place of women in an all-male environment; the pleasures of sauntering in a still-rural Oxford; the sports and pastimes that kept students from their books; music, theatre, and the astounding variety of entertainment found in the streets: executions, political riots, and circuses that the gown as well as the town attended and relished.
University Life in Eighteenth-century Oxford
Author: Graham Midgley
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300068139
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This social history of academic life in 18th-century Oxford presents an account of the activities of students and dons at the university: the often inordinate eating and drinking; life in the senior common rooms; the struggles with authority; the place of women in an all-male environment; the pleasures of sauntering in a still-rural Oxford; the sports and pastimes that kept students from their books; music, theatre, and the astounding variety of entertainment found in the streets: executions, political riots, and circuses that the gown as well as the town attended and relished.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300068139
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This social history of academic life in 18th-century Oxford presents an account of the activities of students and dons at the university: the often inordinate eating and drinking; life in the senior common rooms; the struggles with authority; the place of women in an all-male environment; the pleasures of sauntering in a still-rural Oxford; the sports and pastimes that kept students from their books; music, theatre, and the astounding variety of entertainment found in the streets: executions, political riots, and circuses that the gown as well as the town attended and relished.
The Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse
Author: Roger Lonsdale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199560722
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 913
Book Description
History.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199560722
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 913
Book Description
History.
The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-century Satire
Author: Paddy Bullard
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198727836
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This handbook is a guide to the kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century and it focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198727836
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This handbook is a guide to the kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century and it focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
All Souls College, Oxford in the Early Eighteenth Century
Author: Jeffrey Wigelsworth
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900437535X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In the first detailed history of All Souls College under the Wardenship of Bernard Gardiner, Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth offers a character driven story that addresses scheming, duplicity, and self-righteousness projected against some of the most important political and religious episodes of the early eighteenth century and the people who animated them. Throughout this book, Wigelsworth illuminates the ways in which All Souls and its warden were caught between competing visions of what England, and consequently Oxford, would look like in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900437535X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In the first detailed history of All Souls College under the Wardenship of Bernard Gardiner, Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth offers a character driven story that addresses scheming, duplicity, and self-righteousness projected against some of the most important political and religious episodes of the early eighteenth century and the people who animated them. Throughout this book, Wigelsworth illuminates the ways in which All Souls and its warden were caught between competing visions of what England, and consequently Oxford, would look like in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: J. A. Downie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199566747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensible resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199566747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensible resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel.
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century
Author: James Anthony Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199549028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. A team of experts provide new accounts of both major and lesser-known thinkers, and explores the diverse approaches in the period to logic and metaphysics, the passions, morality, criticism, and politics.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199549028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. A team of experts provide new accounts of both major and lesser-known thinkers, and explores the diverse approaches in the period to logic and metaphysics, the passions, morality, criticism, and politics.
Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Paul Langford
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0192853996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0192853996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.
The Social Life of Books
Author: Abigail Williams
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
Fictions of Presence
Author: Rosalind Ballaster
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275588
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275588
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists
Author: Mary Pix
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199554811
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2001"--T.p
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199554811
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2001"--T.p