Description |
x, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
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Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Travel, trade, and empire : knowing other places, 1660-1800 / Miles Ogborn and Charles W.J. Withers -- Scientific investigations : experimentalism and paradisal return / Joanna Picciotto -- Public and private : the myth of the bourgeois public sphere / J.A. Downie -- The streets : literary beggars and the realities of eighteenth-century London / Tim Hitchcock -- The sewers : ordure, effluence, and excess in the eighteenth century / Sophie Gee -- The novel : novels in the world of moving goods / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- The gothic : moving in the world of novels / Mark R. Blackwell -- Gendering texts : "the abuse of title pages" : men writing as women / Susan Staves -- Drama : genre, gender, theater / John O'Brien -- Poetry : the poetry of occasions / J. Paul Hunter -- Forms of sublimity : the garden, the Georgic, and the nation / Rachel Crawford -- Criticism : literary history and literary historicism / Mark Salber Phillips. |
Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- 17th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688.
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 17th century.
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Added Author |
Wall, Cynthia, 1959-
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ISBN |
1405101180 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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1405101172 (acid-free paper) |
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9781405101172 (acid-free paper) |
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9781405101189 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
Standard No. |
NLGGC 262771942 |
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YDXCP 2054952 |
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NZ1 8524319 |
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AU@ 000025724831 |
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