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Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-03 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press
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Language: en
Pages: 338
Pages: 338
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-15 - Publisher: JHU Press
How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read? Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteent
Language: en
Pages: 457
Pages: 457
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-23 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century Brit
Language: en
Pages: 912
Pages: 912
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-26 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker