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A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature

By: John Richetti

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A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature

By: John Richetti

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have received less attention by modern scholars, such as Matthew Prior and Charles Churchill. Uniquely, the book also discusses noncanonical, working-class writers and demotic works of the era. During the eighteenth-century, Britain experienced vast social, political, economic, and existential changes, greatly influencing the literary world. The major forms of verse, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, experimental works, drama, and political prose from writers such as Montagu, Finch, Johnson, Goldsmith and Cowper, are discussed here in relation to their historical context. A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is essential reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of English literature. Topics covered include: Verse in the early 18th century, from Pope, Gay, and Swift to Addison, Defoe, Montagu, and Finch Poetry from the mid- to late-century, highlighting the works of Johnson, Gray, Collins, Smart, Goldsmith, and Cowper among others, as well as women and working-class poets Prose Fiction in the early and 18th century, including Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett The novel past mid-century, including experimental works by Johnson, Sterne, Mackenzie, Walpole, Goldsmith, and Burney Non-fiction prose, including political and polemical prose 18th century drama

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405135026

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9781405135023

Boston Red Sox Records

By: John A. Mercurio

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Boston Red Sox Records

By: John A. Mercurio

Facts and fascination for faithful Fenway fans. Here is the complete record of the best of the Bosox in their long, glorious, and heartbreaking history. With this book, readers will know when the Red Sox last had two no-hitters in one season; in what category Fred Lynn bested Ted Williams; and more.

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SP Books

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1561712221

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9781561712229

The Golden and the Brazen World

Papers in Literature and History, 1650-1800

By: John M. Wallace

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The Golden and the Brazen World

Papers in Literature and History, 1650-1800

By: John M. Wallace

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

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0520318781

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9780520318786

Harlequin Britain

Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690–1760

By: John O'Brien

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Harlequin Britain

Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690–1760

By: John O'Brien

In the fall of 1723, two London theaters staged, almost simultaneously, pantomime performances of the Faust story. Unlike traditional five-act plays, pantomime—a bawdy hybrid of dance, music, spectacle, and commedia dell'arte featuring the familiar figure of the harlequin at its center—was a theatrical experience of unprecedented accessibility. The immediate popularity of this new genre drew theater apprentices to the cities to learn the new style, and pantomime became the subject of lively debate within British society. Alexander Pope and Henry Fielding bitterly opposed the intrusion into legitimate literary culture of what they regarded as fairground amusements that appealed to sensation and passion over reason and judgment. In Harlequin Britain, literary scholar John O'Brien examines this new form of entertainment and the effect it had on British culture. Why did pantomime become so popular so quickly? Why was it perceived as culturally threatening and socially destabilizing? O’Brien finds that pantomime’s socially subversive commentary cut through the dampened spirit of debate created by Robert Walpole's one-party rule. At the same time, pantomime appealed to the abstracted taste of the mass audience. Its extraordinary popularity underscores the continuing centrality of live performance in a culture that is most typically seen as having shifted its attention to the written text—in particular, to the novel. Written in a lively style rich with anecdotes, Harlequin Britain establishes the emergence of eighteenth-century English pantomime, with its promiscuous blending of genres and subjects, as a key moment in the development of modern entertainment culture.

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310

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JHU Press

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0801879108

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The English Novel in History 1700-1780

By: John Richetti

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The English Novel in History 1700-1780

By: John Richetti

The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists, as well as evaluatiing the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: * scandalous and amatory fictions * criminal narratives of the early part of the century * the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's and 1750's * novels promoting new ideas about the nature of domestic life * novels by women and how they relate to the shift of subject matter This original and useful book revises traditional literary history by considering novels from those years in the context of the transformation of Britain in the eighteenth century.

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Routledge

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1134656424

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9781134656424

A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

By: John McPhee

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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

By: John McPhee

In this unique book, John McPhee takes us into the world of several fascinating people. His inimitable style reveals the intricate details of his characters' lives. 1. Thomas P. F. Hoving 2. Euell Gibbons 3. M.I.T. Fellows in Africa 4. Robert Twynam, of Wimbledon 5. Temple Fielding

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374708665

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9780374708665

An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Raising the Novel

By: John Skinner

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An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Raising the Novel

By: John Skinner

The formal and expressive range of canonic eighteenth-century fiction is enourmous: between them Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne seem to have anticipated just about every question confronting the modern novelist; and Aphra Behn even raises a number of issues overlooked by her male successors. But one might also reverse the coin: much of what is present in these writers will today seem remote and bizarre. There is, in fact, only one novelist from the 'long' eighteenth century who is not an endangered species outside the protectorates of university English departments: Jane Austen. Plenty of people read her, moreover, without the need for secondary literature. These reservations were taken into account in the writing of this book. An Introduction to Eighteenth Century Fiction is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to English fiction from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. It deals with novel criticism, canon formation and relations between genre and gender. The second part of the book contains an extensive discussion of Richardson and Fielding, followed by paired readings of major eighteenth-century novels, juxtaposing texts by Behn and Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Lennox and Burney among others. The various sections of the book, and even the individual chapters, may be read independently or in any order. Works are discussed in a way intended to help students who have not read them, and even engage with some who never will. The author consumes eighteenth-century fiction avidly, but has tried to write a reader-friendly survey for those who may not.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230629466

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9780230629462

Arthur Murphy

An Eminent English Dramatist of the Eighteenth Century

By: John Pike Emery

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Arthur Murphy

An Eminent English Dramatist of the Eighteenth Century

By: John Pike Emery

A biography of one of the most popular dramatist of his day, friend of Fielding, Dr. Johnson, David Garrick, and the Thrales.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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151281573X

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9781512815733

Gather My Horses

By: John D. Nesbitt

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Gather My Horses

By: John D. Nesbitt

Trouble's brewing. Big trouble. A couple of the big ranchers in the area have been pushing around the smaller ones, bullying them, and a few of the smaller ranchers aren't going to take it anymore. Tom Fielding runs a string of packhorses and works for the big outfits, but that doesn't mean he's ready to stand by and do nothing. Lots of folks have warned him not to take sides, not to make powerful enemies. But Tom knows when something is just plain wrong, you have to stand up against it ... even if that means putting yourself in the middle of an all-out war. “Spur-winner Nesbitt doesn’t write traditional novels or routine shoot-em-ups. Gather My Horses is an emotional story, full of believable people with rich detail and a sense of purpose. Nesbitt breathes life, rich in characterization, to this beautifully written novel.” —Roundup Magazine

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Speaking Volumes

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9798890220455

Born in Crisis and Shaped by Controversy

The Relevant History of Methodism, Volume 1: Born in Crisis

By: John R. Tyson

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Born in Crisis and Shaped by Controversy

The Relevant History of Methodism, Volume 1: Born in Crisis

By: John R. Tyson

Methodism was Born in Crisis. It was a religious response to political polarization, ecclesiastical lethargy, classism and privilege, wage slavery and economic disparity, as well as to prejudice, inequality, and exclusion based on gender and race. Among the crises that convulsed Georgian England were: 1) the debilitating effects of the political use of religious authority; 2) the challenges of keeping faith in an age of science and reason; 3) the decline of “main line” religion; 4) the painful and oppressive impact of class privilege; 5) the inequities caused by dramatic economic disparity; 6) the hopelessness of wage slavery; 7) the devaluing and structural exclusion of women; 8) racial prejudice, and the systematic oppression non-white people; 9) the social crisis caused by religious prejudice; and 10) the debilitating effects of popular culture and its pastimes. The current volume traces how each of these historic crises drew from the early Methodists theological, spiritual, moral, and organizational impulses that became part of their spiritual DNA and left them with family traits that have come down to us in this very day. In a subsequent volume, Shaped by Controversy, eight of the main internal struggles that caused familial strife within the Methodist tradition will be examined and assessed. Taken together, these volumes are like a “distant mirror” with which Methodists and other modern Christians might take a good look at themselves. As such this is an invitation to hope anew and for Methodists as well as Christians of all backgrounds to consider who they are and what they intend be for Jesus Christ in the world.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725281325

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9781725281325

Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

By: John Sitter

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Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

By: John Sitter

The middle decades of the eighteenth century—the years that fall between the much-studied ages of Pope and of Johnson—constitute a fascinating, though neglected, period in English literature. John Sitter's book is a literary history of the 1740s and 1750s, a time of great experimentation and innovation, and a time to which the origins of many of the literary criteria of the current day can be traced. Studying the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of the mid-eighteenth century, Sitter attempts to characterize the authors' shared pursuits and preoccupations. He focuses on what he calls literary loneliness—the emerging concept of the isolated writer who creates for a solitary reader, a writer who strives for a "pure poetry" unconnected to political and historical particulars. Tracing the literary changes that took place during the period, Sitter studies the early works of David Hume and the increasingly visionary writings of William Law; he considers the profound and puzzling break with the past manifested in contemporary poetry; and he analyzes the similar artistic premises and authorial difficulties apparent in the longer poems of Thomson, Young, and Akenside, and in the last novels of Richardson and Fielding. Their literary assumptions are still part of our critical tradition, Sitter says, and in his conclusion he notes some significant correspondences between mid-eighteenth- century literature and twentieth-century criticism. Anyone who studies the literature or the intellectual history of the eighteenth century, or who is concerned with the theory of literary history, will find Literary Loneliness rewarding reading.

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Cornell University Press

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1501743376

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9781501743375

The Baseball Coaching Bible

By: Jerry Kindall,John Winkin

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The Baseball Coaching Bible

By: Jerry Kindall,John Winkin

Presents a comprehensive guide to coaching baseball with contributions from twenty-seven coaches who share their secrets to winning; and offers advice on building and managing a program, practice sessions, team strategies, player motivation and leadership, and making baseball fun.

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Human Kinetics

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0736001611

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9780736001618

The Lipid Handbook with CD-ROM

By: Frank D. Gunstone,John L. Harwood,Albert J. Dijkstra

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The Lipid Handbook with CD-ROM

By: Frank D. Gunstone,John L. Harwood,Albert J. Dijkstra

Extensively revised, reorganized, and expanded, the third edition of the industry standard, The Lipid Handbook reflects many of the changes in lipid science and technology that have occurred in the last decade. It places a stronger emphasis on the nutritional, medical, and agricultural aspects of lipids to reflect the increased interest and research in these areas in the past 10 years and beyond. This edition features updated chapters and expanded coverage, including additional compounds to its dictionary. Written by experts from a diverse range of fields, many of whom have contributed new research in the areas under review, this handbook remains an essential reference.

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1420009672

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Book's by John Fielding

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Boston Red Sox Records

Boston Red Sox Records

The Golden and the Brazen World

The Golden and the Brazen World

Harlequin Britain

Harlequin Britain

The English Novel in History 1700-1780

The English Novel in History 1700-1780

A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction

An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Arthur Murphy

Arthur Murphy

Gather My Horses

Gather My Horses

Born in Crisis and Shaped by Controversy

Born in Crisis and Shaped by Controversy

Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

The Baseball Coaching Bible

The Baseball Coaching Bible

The Lipid Handbook with CD-ROM

The Lipid Handbook with CD-ROM

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