Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

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The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction
By Valerie Pedlar
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), quoted with commentary in Hunter and MacAlpine, Psychiatry, pp. 36-37. Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws 0fEngland (1765-9), quoted in I-Iunter and MacAlpine ...
The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction
By Valerie Pedlar
Hanwell 8, 30, 104 Haslam, John 2 illustrations 18, 35–7 hereditary madness 6, 127, 159 imagination 18, 20, 22, 28–51, 70–1, heredity 2, 161 154 Heywood, Thomas, A Woman inheritance 38, 74, 81, 93 114 Killed with Kindness 120 Hill, ...
The Jewish Eighteenth Century: A European Biography, 1700–1750
By Shmuel Feiner
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, ...
Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba
By Louis A. Pérez
... terrible storms believed to exist in all the oceans of the world , " Las Casas declared , " the ones of these seas in ... dreadful visitations of the Almighty , are apprehended . The prognostics of these elementary conflicts , have been ...
The History of Clerkenwell
By Edward J. Wood, William John Pinks
The History of Clerkenwell