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Gender and Language in British Literary Criticism, 1660–1790
During the eighteenth century, British critics applied terms of gender to literature according to the belief that masculine values represented the...
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Ancient and Medieval Memories
This book is an analysis of thinking, remembering and reminiscing according to ancient authors, and their medieval readers. The author argues that...
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The Selfish Meme
Culture is a unique and fascinating aspect of the human species. How did it emerge and how does it develop? Richard Dawkins suggested culture evolves...
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Reason, Grace, and Sentiment
The period 1660–1780 saw major changes in the relationship between religion and ethics in English thought. In this first part of an important...
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Pamela in the Marketplace
Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. The best selling novel...
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The Epistemology of Development, Evolution, and Genetics
Collected for the first time in a single volume are essays which examine the developments in three fundamental biological disciplines - embryology,...
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Reason, Grace, and Sentiment
This volume completes Isabel Rivers’ widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the...
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Reading History in Early Modern England
This book focuses on the after-life of historical texts in the period between the arrival of printing in England and the early eighteenth century....
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The Persistence of Subjectivity
The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the...
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The Epistemology of Development, Evolution, and Genetics
Collected for the first time in a single volume are essays which examine the developments in three fundamental biological disciplines - embryology,...
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Origins of Narrative
During the late eighteenth century the Bible underwent a shift in interpretation so radical as to make it virtually a different book from what it had...
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Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s Dictionary
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, the first great English dictionary and one of the most famous books in the English language,...
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The Persistence of Subjectivity
The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the...
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Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy
This book is about the influence of varying theological conceptions of contingency and necessity on two versions of the mechanical philosophy in the...
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The Anti-Jacobin Novel
The French Revolution sparked an ideological debate which also brought Britain to the brink of revolution in the 1790s. Just as radicals wrote...
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Reading Material in Early Modern England
Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of a wide range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English...
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Foucault on Freedom
Freedom and the subject were guiding themes for Michel Foucault throughout his philosophical career. In this clear and comprehensive analysis of his...
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Print Politics
Print Politics is the first literary study of the culture of the popular radical movement for parliamentary reform in the early decades of the...
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God
This book shows that the repeated announcements of the death of Hegel’s philosophical system have been premature. Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom,...
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Representing the South Pacific
This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by...
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Evidence and Faith
Charles Taliaferro has written a dynamic narrative history of philosophical reflection on religion from the seventeenth century to the present, with...
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Literature and the Taste of Knowledge
What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This book seeks to...
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Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians
Sextus Empiricus’ Against the Logicians is by far the most detailed surviving examination by any ancient Greek sceptic of the areas of epistemology...
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Evidence and Faith
Charles Taliaferro has written a dynamic narrative history of philosophical reflection on religion from the seventeenth century to the present, with...
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