Author: Duncan Wu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749150
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 4
Author: Duncan Wu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749150
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749150
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Catalogue, Systematic and Analytical, of the Books of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
Author: St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
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Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Washington Irving
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Pages : 664
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Catalogue of the Public Library, of Concord, N.H.
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Brownson's Quarterly Review
Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts
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Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Pages : 258
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Brownson's quarterly review
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Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Pages : 554
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The Monthly Literary Advertiser
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Pages : 280
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Peopling the World
Author: Charlotte Sussman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252020
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century In John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement. Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252020
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century In John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement. Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people.