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Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Molesworth, Jesse, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The rise and popular awareness of the science of probability in the eighteenth century was accompanied by an equally great interest in the anti-probable: lotteries, tarot readings, and gambling. In this original study, Jesse Molesworth analyses the relationship between realism, probability and chance in eighteenth-century fiction. In a variety of readings, both literary and cultural, he investigates works by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, in the context of the rise of lottery addiction, Hoyle's whist, and tarot cartomancy. Both a reassessment of the early development of the novel and a contribution to recent work on realism and fiction, this book suggests connections between narrative and mathematics that reveal a darker, more transgressive, side to the novel. Rather than a rational expression of Enlightenment truths, the novel reaches out to older, more superstitious views as it tries to combine the attractions of chance with the consolations of reason.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property

In Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property,Wolfram Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyze the description of houses,landscapes,and commodities in eighteenth-century fiction. His study argues that such descriptions are important to the British imagination of community. By making visible what it means to own something,they illuminate how competing concepts of property define the boundaries of the individual,of social community,and of political systems. In this way,Schmidge

Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century

Beauty is one of the most important and intriguing ideas in eighteenth-century culture. The concept of beauty was central to debates about art,culture and taste,and was invoked,in various and contradictory ways,to determine acceptable behavior for women. Robert W. Jones traces changing concepts of beauty in the eighteenth century through a wide range of material,including philosophical texts by William Hogarth and Edmund Burke,novels by Charlotte Lennox and Sarah Scott,and representations of the cele

Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Volume

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ogot, Bethwell A. / Ogot, B. A., PUBLISHER: UNESCO, One of UNESCO's most important publishing projects in the last thirty years, the General History of Africa marks a major breakthrough in the recognition of Africa's cultural heritage. Offering an internal perspective of Africa, the eight-volume work provides a comprehensive approach to the history of ideas, civilizations, societies and institutions of African history. The volumes also discuss historical relationships among Africans as well as multilateral interactions with other cultures and continents. Buy Now

The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Facts and

Featuring twelve original essays by leading scholars in the fields of Irish literary and cultural studies,this book investigates how the 19th-century Irish novel was defined and understood in its own contemporary moment,and reconsiders current critical discourse surrounding 19th-century Irish fiction.

Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London, Tim Hitchcock ()

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Marquis d'Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer - Lettres chinoises ou correspondance philosophique, historique et critique, entre un chinois voyageur à Paris et ses correspondans à la Chine, en Moscovie, en Perse et au Japon (volume 5 complete) -The Hague, Pierre Paupie, pages -- Le fourbe puni ou le duel des rivales -La Haye, Chez Pierre Paupie, no name, pages - - Supplément au catalogue des livres nouveaux François & Latins (in 4 parts)- Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, pages, 16 pages, 16 pages, 22 pages Full calf binding, back damaged, flaws to the middle of the back and the top and bottom crown, good condition of the covers, dented corners - cm. Good condition inside except the front cover which tends to come loose, a few rare stains: "Lettres chinoises ou correspondance philosophique"; with many ornamental initials in the novel; "Le fourbe puni ou le duel des rivales"; excellent little anonymous novel, typical in its construction and writing of the first half of the 18th, who tells the meeting of a gentleman and a duellist, the greatest woman he had ever seen; she will eventually tell her love story and give an explanation to this curious duel..!"Supplément au catalogue des livres nouveaux François & Latins"; on the recent books and their characteristics..! Read More

The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth

The United States and China offers the first comprehensive synthesis of the history of U.S.-Chinese relations from initial contact to the present. Balancing the modern () and contemporary (–) periods,Dong Wang retraces centuries of interaction between two of the world’s great powers from the perspective of both sides. She examines state-to-state diplomacy,as well as economic,social,military,religious,and cultural interplay within v

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Realism and the Audiovisual Media (Paperback)

This collection examines two recent phenomena: the return of realist tendencies and practices in world cinema and television,and the rehabilitation of realism in film and media theory. The contributors investigate these two phenomena in detail,querying their origins,relations,divergences and intersections from a variety of perspectives --Provided by publisher.

Eighteenth-Century Vitalism: Bodies,Culture,Politics

This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy,and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment,and the radical politics and culture of the s.

Domestic Space in Eighteenth-Century British Novels

Examining the work of three authors: Richardson,Haywood and Burney,and their representation of domestic space,this book argues that to make such spaces accessible to modern readers they need to have information of the real domestic. By recreating specifics of these spaces this book innervates the fictional domestic interior for modern readers.

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  Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Cen

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There's a Slight Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of

The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity,dark secrets,and one extraordinary beauty pageant. When her husband is offered a post at a small university,Maye is only too happy to pack up and leave the relentless Phoenix heat for the lush green quietude of Spaulding,Washington. While she loves the odd little town,there is one thing she didn’t anticipate: just how heartbreaking it w

The Collar and the Bracelet: An Egyptian Novel (Paperback)

Set in the ancient Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the British campaigns in Sudan,the Second World War,and the war in Palestine,The Collar and the Bracelet is the stunning saga of the Bishari family a family ripped apart by the violence of history,the dark conduits of human desire,and the rigid social conventions of village life. In a series of masterful narrative circles and repetitions,the novella traces the grim intrigues of Hazina al-Bishari and the inexorable destinies of

Derrida,Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of

Derrida,Literature and War argues for the importance of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work in thinking today about war and literature. Sean Gaston starts by marking Derrida's attempts to resist the philosophical tradition of calculating on absence as an assured resource,while insisting on the (mis)chances of the chance encounter. Gaston re-examines the relation between the concept of war and the chances of literature by focusing on narratives of conflict set during the

Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (Paperback)

In his earlier books such as Tropics of Discourse and The Content of the Form,Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In Figural Realism,White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. 'History' is not only an object we can study,writes White,it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediate

A Chance to Win: Boyhood,Baseball,and the Struggle for

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark,revealing the complex realities of life in one of America’s most dangerous citiesWhen Rodney Mason,an ex-con drug dealer from Newark’s rough South Ward,was shot and paralyzed,he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93 mph fastball,Mason decided to form a Little League team to help boys avoid the street life that had claimed his youth and mobility. Predicta

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Mabel and Me: A Novel About the Movies (Hardcover)

It's in Hollywood,the birth of the Movies,and Mabel Normand,the talented prototype of the contemporary comedienne,is shocking the world. Mabel Normand -- the visionary who turned Charlie Chaplin into a movie star,enchanted Mack Sennett,and became the first actress to have her name emblazoned in the title of a motion picture -- is the funniest woman on earth. And she is undoubtedly the most beguiling.Mabel and Me takes us deep inside the earliest days of motion pictures,and together with the Quee

The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bisson, Thomas N., PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press, Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men around castles who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility, heedless of the old public order. In "The Crisis of the Twelfth Century," acclaimed historian Thomas Bisson asks what it was like to live in a Europe without government, and he asks how people experienced power, and suffered. Rethinking a familiar history as a problem of origins, he explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose. Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace instead of ruling it. Men like him had been all too commonplace in the twelfth century. More and more knights pretended to powers and status, encroached on clerical domains and exploited peasants, and came to seem threatening to social order and peace. Yet as Bisson shows, it was not so much the oppressed people as their tormentors who were in crisis. Covering all of Western Christendom, this book suggests what these violent people--and the outcries they provoked--contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms, principalities, and towns. "The Crisis of the Twelfth Century" is an unparalleled cultural history of power in medieval Europe, and a monumental achievement by one of today's foremost medievalists.

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