Comparative Practices ¿ Literature, Language, And Culture In Britain's Long Eighteenth Century Av Marcus Hartner, Nadine Bohm¿schnitker

<p>The period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the Company of Scotland''s Darien colony, the 1707 Acts of Union, the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, and the emergence of the new British...

The dazzling new biography of one of history''s most misunderstood queensElizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented - and underestimated - figures of the seventeenth century. Labelled a spendthrift more interested in the theatre and her...

<p><b>The latest work in eighteenth-century studies.</b></p><p>Showcasing exciting new research across disciplines, Volume 52 of <i>Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture </i>explores how history''s dominant...

Combining historical and interpretive work, this collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between human and nonhuman animals in Britain over the long eighteenth century. Persistent questions concern modes of representing animals and animal-human...