Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century recovers the small, densely networked world of Hanoverian Britain and its self-consciously inventive language for talking about human connection.
Two such notes identify Tristram as Walter's son ('* This book my father would never consent to publish; ... Hall had publicly taken on the pseudonym Antony Shandy since his Two Lyrick Epistles had appeared in 1760 addressed to 'my ...
This 1935 book plunges the reader into life in Germany two hundred years ago, linking everyday life with the thought of the age.
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
"The Art Through the Century series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.
... between classical and English verse, sometimes – as in the period's numerous poems on the “art of poetry” – imitating the form and manner, as well as echoing the concerns, of the Greek and Roman critics. Popular poetic and dramatic ...
Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 26-Aug. 7, 2011, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sept. 18-Dec. 10, 2011.
An exploration of the unity of culture in the Age of the Enlightenment, when 18th-century scientists, writers and artists formed a well-integrated elite.
Strangely, with all the history and heritage, of the three breweries which are known for their pale ale, Hodgson, Allsop, and Bass, Hodgson went out of business. The true nature of the first pale ales is not known and can only be ...
Pope's Essay on Man was published anonymously in London in 1732 and 1734, and he did not admit to having written it until ... See Lucy Moore, ed., Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld (London: Penguin Classics, ...