History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)

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Robert Mayer argues that the modern English novel emerged from historical writing. Historical discourse in the seventeenth century embraced not only "history" in its modern sense, but also fiction, polemic, gossip, and marvels. Mayer shows how the narratives of Daniel Defoe--unlike those of his contemporaries Aphra Behn and Delarivière Manley--were read, in their own time, as history, making connections that later novelists developed. This new study makes an important contribution to the continuing debate about the origins of the novel in Britain.

Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)

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Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Ann Jessie van Sant
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ASIN: 0521604583

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This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with more scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation as they were applied to repentant prostitutes and children of the vagrant and criminal poor. The book goes on to explore the novelâ€™s location of psychological responses to suffering in physical forms. Van Sant invokes eighteenth-century debates about the relative status of sight and touch in epistemology and psychology, as a context for discussing the â€~man of feelingâ€™ (notably in Sterneâ€™s A Sentimental Journey) - a spectator who registers his sensibility by physical means.

Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II Until the War With the thrirt

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A list of British advocates of classical liberalism, 1660-1780
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Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II Until the War With the thrirt
Caroline Robbins
Manufacturer: Liberty Fund
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A list of British advocates of classical liberalism, 1660-1780.......2007-06-01

This book traces the history of classical liberalism in Britain through the period 1660-1780. Specifically, this book lists almost every Briton who advocated liberal reforms and who wrote between roughly 1660 and 1780 (i.e., between the Restoration of the British monarchy and the American War of Independence). The "Commonwealth men" mentioned in the book's title refers to reformers of the Interregnum -- Oliver Cromwell's "Commonwealth". The Commonwealth men originally proposed many of the reforms that were echoed by later generations. Proposed reforms ranged from the institution of a republic, to universal manhood suffrage, to toleration of Protestant sects outside the Anglican church, to redistricting Parliamentary electoral districts -- and many other proposals to expand liberty in an age of declining liberty on the European continent. The ideas of these reformers served as the basis of state and federal constitutions in the U.S. and of Britain's "Reform Bill" of 1832.

English reformers who are featured include statesman-political writer James Harrington (1611-1677), soldier-statesman Algernon Sidney (1622-1683), poet John Milton (1608-1674), philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), statesman Robert Molesworth (1656-1725), authors John Trenchard (1662-1723) and Thomas Gordon (?-1750), the Earl of Shaftsbury (1621-1683), colonial governor Thomas Pownall (1722-1805), and clergyman-scientist Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). Irish reformers include statesman, scientist, and political writer William Molyneux (1656-1698). Scots-Irish reformers include professor Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). Very brief biographies of these people are presented, along with very brief summaries of their writings and the influence of those writings. A host of minor figures are also mentioned, including clergymen, academics, aristocrats, etc.

These reformers failed to implement their proposals in Britain because their contemporaries were content with the status quo and feared a recurrence of the anarchy of the English Civil Wars of the 1640s. Also, the reformers, like most politicians at that time, refused to organize as a party. (Parties were regarded as dangerously divisive.) Only in America were their ideas fully realized.

This book has several shortcomings. It was written by a scholar for scholars, not laymen. It has little coherent narrative: it's more a list of names than a text. Scores of obscure figures are mentioned with little or no explanation of who the people are. Many people are mentioned early in the book, yet very brief biographies of them appear only hundreds of pages later. The writing is dull.

The book also presumes a detailed knowledge of seventeenth and eighteenth century British history. The reader should know of events (the Rye House plot (p. 6), the Gordon riots (p. 313)), legal actions (Bushell's case (p. 34), Hampden's case (p. 70), the Bankers case (p.75)), groups (the Cambridge Platonists (p. 72), the Literary Society (p. 209), the Council of Six (p. 267)), places (Salters Hall and the Barbican (p. 226), the Hyde (p. 323), and various dissenting academies), theology (Socians, Arminians, and Arians (p. 118), the Athanasian Creed (p. 319)), and (proposed) legislation (the Agreement of the People (p.2), the Septennial Act (p. 248), the Peerage Bill (p. 285), the Feathers Petition (p. 290)).

The book provides ample references for further study.

A very trying read.......2006-12-26

This book attempts to cover so many political figures from the era (1649 - 1775) with all manner of tidbits (who was the friend or relative of whom, who hung out in what club, etc) and snippets of their thoughts and writings that they and their work become almost indistinguishable. Furthermore, the author refers to both large and small events of that era with no attempt of explanation. And her consideration of people and events skips back and forth across the era adding to the confusion factor. The book fits the academic stereotype only too well: unnecessarily obscure.

In short, the reader had best already have a very good knowledge of the history of the era. And a lot happened: the execution of a king, the restoration of a king, and the replacement of a king. For the very dedicated and knowledgeable reader, there may be enough understanding of Whig thinking in the book to endure a difficult read. The book is three stars only for that reader.

History of Anglo American Radicalism.......2005-11-03

Caroline Robbins Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman is a wonderful contribution to the study of the Anglo American Revolutionary tradition. Robbins carefully outlines the philiosophy of the English Revolutionaries,and radicals, religious and secular. Robbins lays out a convincing case for a direct line from the radical libertarian Levellers during the English Revolution to the American and French Revolutions.

Men like John Liliburne, Richard Overton, Henry Marten and other levellers are brought to life and shown as the radicals they were. Religious radicals like John Toland, had to flee Britian for his life for writing "Christianity not Mysterious", a rational critique of the Christian religion. Locke, Shaftsbury, Hobbes, and Algernon Sidney are also delved into. Men like Sidney and Locke believed that all people had a right to revolution against tyrannical government. Sidney paid for such belief with his life by being beheaded in 1683 for treason.

Robbins shows these radicals in their true glory: courageous, dedicated and the forebearers of the American Revolutionaries.

Overall, a great book.

Seeking to better understand the philosophical tenets.......2004-04-14

First published in 1959, The Eighteenth-Century Common-Wealthman by the late Caroline Robbins (1903-1999) is an expertly compiled history of the men whose writings espoused the principles of liberty in eras bygone (the late seventeenth century down to the end of the eighteenth century), when such drastic political changes were considered dangerous at best. Seeking to better understand the philosophical tenets of ideas that would come to form the core of Western democratic government, The Eighteenth-Century Common-Wealthman offers a unique and seminal study of both the principles and the human beings who so eloquently communicated them, and were responsible for bringing about great political changes toward personal freedom and liberty in the irresistible tides of history.

Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Oxford English Monographs)

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Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Oxford English Monographs)
Nicholas Hudson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Although there are many books on Samuel Johnson's moral and religious thought, none have managed to provide a complete analysis of his relationship to the ethics and theology of the eighteenth-century. This major new study examines the background to Johnson's views on a wide range of issues
that were debated by the philosophers and divines of the age, emphasizing the ambivalence and contradiction inherent in his orthodoxy, while challenging the assumption that his religious beliefs were unstable and filled with anxiety.

Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)

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Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Tim Fulford
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ASIN: 052102742X

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Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson, Cowper, Johnson, Gilpin, Repton, Wordsworth, Coleridge and others. He shows how landscape description formed part of a larger debate over the nature of liberty and authority in a Britain developing its sense of nationhood, and reveals the tensions that arose as writers sought to define their relationship to the public sphere. Fulford's innovative study offers a new view of literary and political influence linking the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

HISTORY OF ENGLISH THOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. VOL. 2.

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HISTORY OF ENGLISH THOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. VOL. 2.

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Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)

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Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
William Walker
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William Walker's analysis of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Locke's importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work. He is revealed as a crucial figure for emerging modernity, less the familiar empiricist innovator and more a proto-Nietzschean thinker. Walker's reading of Locke is finely attentive to the text and resourceful in placing the Essay in its broadest philosophical and historical context.

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Volume. I

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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Volume. I
Sir Leslie Stephen
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ASIN: B000HF3YKQ

The Age of Reasons: Quixotism, Sentimentalism and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 12)

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The Age of Reasons: Quixotism, Sentimentalism and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 12)
Wendy Motooka
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Wendy Motooka contends that the "Age of Reason" was actually an Age of Reasons. Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy, and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicize the meaning of eighteenth-century "reason" and its supposed opposites: quixotism and sentimentalism. Reading novels by the Fieldings, Lennox and Sterne alongside the works of Adam Smith, Motooka argues that today's social sciences are the legacy of sentimentalism.

The Augustan world: Society, thought, and letters in eighteenth-century England (Harper torchbooks)

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The Augustan world: Society, thought, and letters in eighteenth-century England (Harper torchbooks)
A. R Humphreys
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
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Written in nontechnical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally-planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared, to the present. Large industrial enterprises play a vital role in developing new technologies and commercializing new products in all of the major countries. How such firms emerged and evolved in different economic, political, and social settings constitutes a significant part of twentieth century world history. These essays, written by internationally-known historians and economists, help one understand the essential role and functions of big business.

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I don't agree with all its conclusions, but.......2000-04-09

...I can't argue with thee diligence of the scholars who contributed to this volume.

Readers should be warned. If this is your first attempt at studying industrial history, it is difficult going. It is not really "economics" in the usual way. Nor is it history as you have usually read it.

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Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations examines the crucial contribution of Chinese business groups to the rapid growth of South-East Asia. This study examines major Chinese firms and their increasingly important networks in this era of regional interdependence and internationalization of production processes. It draws upon unprecedented empirical detail relating to Chinese firms, their growth patterns, joint ventures with foreign capital, and responses to technological change and competition and contributes to debates on economic networks, the economics of trus, and relations between business and the state in the global economy.

Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations (Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia)

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Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations (Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia)
Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: B000OUTA7U

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Not exactly a how-to.......2007-06-25

First of all, this was written in pre-internet 1992.

So don't expect to find a listing of web-pages that will buy something from you.

Not sure why I bought, curious in a morbid way I guess and this book satisfied my curiousity. However from the standpoint that you might want to actually use it to make money, forget it. A few searches on Google returns far more info.

Very Intresting, But Lacks Some Needed Information.......2005-02-12

This title attempts to cover a bit too much in a very small amount of space. While the title discusses numerous different parts of your body you can sell, it covers the process of selling some of them better than others.

If you are looking to sell a kidney, this title will tell you little more than the fact that it is illegal in the United States, that a kidney is worth about $50,000 and that it can be done legally in other countries. A few examples of where one might start are provided. However, it leaves the reader to determine who would buy, how to market the goods and so on. If you are looking to sell your kidney, this title will probably not be helpful to this end.

However, Sell Yourself to Science goes into sufficient detail on how to sell bone marrow, blood plasma, hair, breast milk and other byproducts. Perhaps the most interesting section is the part about how to sell small slices of your liver or spleen for big bucks before you die. You'll still be left with enough to survive and the organ does regenerate itself. This topic is covered briefly. Brief information is included on being a surrogate mom as well.

Sell Yourself to Science goes into great detail on how to sell your sperm (for both impregnation and for research only purposes, those selling for research only will face almost no screening [you can even be HIV positive] where as those selling for impregnation will be very carefully screened and face many probing questions about past medical history and more) and even provides an extensive appendix listing places that will buy your baby batter.

A substantial portion of Sell Yourself to Science (approximately 60%) is dedicated to the art of selling yourself to Phase One medical research studies. It includes information on working conditions, risks, things you should stay away from, how to learn about the studies going on in your area and using fellow guinea pigs to get inside information on the next study coming up. If you are looking to be shot up with the latest wonder drug for pay or otherwise used (or abused) to further science, this book will be invaluable to you.

Author Jim Hogshire spends little time trying to convince the reader that its your body and you have the right to part it out as you will, but does touch briefly on the ethical concerns. This title is of fair to good quality, depending on what information you are looking for.

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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on November 8, 2004. The length of the article is 426 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Greetings from Hot Springs National Park.(Mayor's Letter)
Author: Mike Bush
Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 8, 2004
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Volume: 21 Issue: 45 Page: S4(2)

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