Barbarism and religion . Volume 1 The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764 / / J. G. A. Pocock [[electronic resource]]
| Barbarism and religion . Volume 1 The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764 / / J. G. A. Pocock [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Pocock J. G. A (John Greville Agard), <1924-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 937/.06/092 |
| Collana | Barbarism and religion |
| Soggetto topico | Enlightenment - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
1-280-43231-4
0-511-17296-6 0-511-04021-0 0-511-15190-X 0-511-30322-X 0-511-49066-6 0-511-05126-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on references, quotations and translations; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Putney, Oxford and the question of English Enlightenment; CHAPTER 2 Lausanne and the Arminian Enlightenment; CHAPTER 3 The re-education of young Gibbon: method, unbelief and the turn towards history; CHAPTER 4 The Hampshire militia and the problems of modernity; CHAPTER 5 Study in the camp: erudition and the search for a narrative; CHAPTER 6 The politics of scholarship in French and English Enlightenment
CHAPTER 7 Erudition and Enlightenment in the Académie des InscriptionsCHAPTER 8 D'Alembert's 'Discours préliminaire': the philosophe perception of history; CHAPTER 9 The 'Essai sur l'étude de la littérature': imagination, irony and history; CHAPTER 10 Paris and the gens de lettres: experience and recollection; CHAPTER 11 The return to Lausanne and the pursuit of erudition; CHAPTER 12 The journey to Rome and the transformation of intentions; EPILOGUE Gibbon and the rhythm that was different; References; ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BEFORE 1800; MODERN AND SECONDARY SOURCES; Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Barbarism & Religion |
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Barbarism and religion . Volume 1 The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764 / / J. G. A. Pocock
| Barbarism and religion . Volume 1 The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764 / / J. G. A. Pocock |
| Autore | Pocock J. G. A (John Greville Agard), <1924-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 937/.06/092 |
| Collana | Barbarism and religion |
| Soggetto topico | Enlightenment - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
9786610432318
1-107-11595-7 1-280-43231-4 0-511-17296-6 0-511-04021-0 0-511-15190-X 0-511-30322-X 0-511-49066-6 0-511-05126-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on references, quotations and translations; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Putney, Oxford and the question of English Enlightenment; CHAPTER 2 Lausanne and the Arminian Enlightenment; CHAPTER 3 The re-education of young Gibbon: method, unbelief and the turn towards history; CHAPTER 4 The Hampshire militia and the problems of modernity; CHAPTER 5 Study in the camp: erudition and the search for a narrative; CHAPTER 6 The politics of scholarship in French and English Enlightenment
CHAPTER 7 Erudition and Enlightenment in the Académie des Inscriptions; CHAPTER 8 D'Alembert's 'Discours préliminaire': the philosophe perception of history; CHAPTER 9 The 'Essai sur l'étude de la littérature': imagination, irony and history; CHAPTER 10 Paris and the gens de lettres: experience and recollection; CHAPTER 11 The return to Lausanne and the pursuit of erudition; CHAPTER 12 The journey to Rome and the transformation of intentions; EPILOGUE Gibbon and the rhythm that was different; References; ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BEFORE 1800; MODERN AND SECONDARY SOURCES; Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Barbarism & Religion |
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Barbarism and religion . Volume 1 The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737–1764 / / J. G. A. Pocock
| Barbarism and religion . Volume 1 The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737–1764 / / J. G. A. Pocock |
| Autore | Pocock J. G. A (John Greville Agard), <1924-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 937/.06/092 |
| Collana | Barbarism and religion |
| Soggetto topico | Enlightenment - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
9786610432318
1-107-11595-7 1-280-43231-4 0-511-17296-6 0-511-04021-0 0-511-15190-X 0-511-30322-X 0-511-49066-6 0-511-05126-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on references, quotations and translations; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Putney, Oxford and the question of English Enlightenment; CHAPTER 2 Lausanne and the Arminian Enlightenment; CHAPTER 3 The re-education of young Gibbon: method, unbelief and the turn towards history; CHAPTER 4 The Hampshire militia and the problems of modernity; CHAPTER 5 Study in the camp: erudition and the search for a narrative; CHAPTER 6 The politics of scholarship in French and English Enlightenment
CHAPTER 7 Erudition and Enlightenment in the Académie des Inscriptions; CHAPTER 8 D'Alembert's 'Discours préliminaire': the philosophe perception of history; CHAPTER 9 The 'Essai sur l'étude de la littérature': imagination, irony and history; CHAPTER 10 Paris and the gens de lettres: experience and recollection; CHAPTER 11 The return to Lausanne and the pursuit of erudition; CHAPTER 12 The journey to Rome and the transformation of intentions; EPILOGUE Gibbon and the rhythm that was different; References; ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BEFORE 1800; MODERN AND SECONDARY SOURCES; Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Barbarism & Religion |
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Deception and detection in eighteenth-century Britain / / Jack Lynch
| Deception and detection in eighteenth-century Britain / / Jack Lynch |
| Autore | Lynch Jack (John T.) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Disciplina | 364.163094109033 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Literary forgeries and mystifications - History - 18th century Fraud in popular culture Impostors and imposture - Great Britain - History - 18th century Enlightenment - Great Britain Fraud - Great Britain - History - 18th century Fraud in literature |
| ISBN |
1-351-94603-X
1-138-26194-7 1-315-25843-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Recognizing a fake when you see one -- 2. Conviction on the first view -- 3. The utmost evidence -- 4. Truth is uniform -- 5. All manner of experience and observation -- 6. The mention of posterior facts -- 7. False recollections -- 8. Motivated malignity -- 9. Different kinds of value. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Deception and detection in 18th-century Britain |
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Distraction : problems of attention in eighteenth-century literature / / Natalie M. Phillips
| Distraction : problems of attention in eighteenth-century literature / / Natalie M. Phillips |
| Autore | Phillips Natalie M. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/353 |
| Soggetto topico |
Enlightenment - Great Britain
Psychology and literature - History - 18th century Distraction (Psychology) Interest (Psychology) Cognition in literature English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4214-2013-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Literary History of Distraction; The Unifocal and the Multifocal; The Rise of the Distracted Character; Attention, Distraction, and Enlightenment Philosophy of Mind; A Swiftly Tilting Madness; Categorizing Distraction; 1 Mind Wandering: Forms of Distraction in the Eighteenth-Century Essay; Distraction and the Eighteenth-Century Essay; The Rhetoric of Attention: Appealing to Pathos and Brevitas; The Essay as a Tool of Focus; Training Attention to Attention; Strengthening Focus: Repetition and Dramatic Irony
Economies of AttentionThe History of Attention Span; 2 Lapses of Concentration: Distracted Vigilance and the Female Mind; Environment and Mind: Urban Diversion and the Distracted Brain; The Problem of a Soft Female Mind; Sex, Environment, and the Multifocal Coquette; The Challenges of Situational Awareness; Philosophizing Multiplicity: Cognitive Bottlenecks and Sorting Gloves; Strained Omniscience and the Distracted Heroine; The Crowded Syntax of Sexual Inattention; "Might as Well Be Passed Over as Read": Indulging the Diverted Reader 3 Scattered Attention: Distraction and the Rhythm of Cognitive OverloadRhythms of Narrative, Rhythms of Mind; Tristram's Style and the Scattered Rhythms of Cognitive Overload; Susannah and the Vexed Situation of Madam Reader; The Anatomy of Parallel Processing; The Sermon and Rhythms of Distraction; Hobbyhorses and the Individual Beat of Interest; Irregular Distraction: The Tempo of Cognitive Overload; Rhythms of the Brain: Creativity and the Timing of Distraction; 4 Fixated Attention: The Gothic Pathology of Single-Minded Focus; Microscope and Mind Scientific Metaphors and the Madness of AttentionThe Politics and Poetics of Fixation; Involuntary Attention: A Multifocal Selective Blindness; Sympathy and the Bene.ts of Distraction; Rewriting Suspense: Interruption and the Gothic Sublime; Fixation and the Science of Obsession; 5 Divided Attention: Characterization and Cognitive Richness in Jane Austen; The Power of Multitasking in Pride and Prejudice; The Singular Importance of Inattentive Characters; Mr. Hurst: The Limited Capacity of the Undivided Mind; Mrs. Jenkinson: Narrow Bandwidth and the Creation of Depth Lydia and Miss Bingley: Caricaturing Cognitive VacancyThe Dangers of Too Much Attention; Distraction as Liveliness of Mind; Mary Bennet: Hyperfocus and Cognitive Immobility; Lady Catherine de Bourgh: The Problem of Excessive Vigilance; Elizabeth Bennet: The Bene.ts of Diversion; Characterizing Reading: Maps of Distraction and Interest; Coda: History of Mind and Literary Neuroscience; Interdisciplinarity: From Theory to Practice; Literary Attention: An fMRI Study of Reading Jane Austen; The Value of Literary History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R S |
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Distraction : problems of attention in eighteenth-century literature / / Natalie M. Phillips
| Distraction : problems of attention in eighteenth-century literature / / Natalie M. Phillips |
| Autore | Phillips Natalie M. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/353 |
| Soggetto topico |
Enlightenment - Great Britain
Psychology and literature - History - 18th century Distraction (Psychology) Interest (Psychology) Cognition in literature English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 1-4214-2013-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Literary History of Distraction; The Unifocal and the Multifocal; The Rise of the Distracted Character; Attention, Distraction, and Enlightenment Philosophy of Mind; A Swiftly Tilting Madness; Categorizing Distraction; 1 Mind Wandering: Forms of Distraction in the Eighteenth-Century Essay; Distraction and the Eighteenth-Century Essay; The Rhetoric of Attention: Appealing to Pathos and Brevitas; The Essay as a Tool of Focus; Training Attention to Attention; Strengthening Focus: Repetition and Dramatic Irony
Economies of AttentionThe History of Attention Span; 2 Lapses of Concentration: Distracted Vigilance and the Female Mind; Environment and Mind: Urban Diversion and the Distracted Brain; The Problem of a Soft Female Mind; Sex, Environment, and the Multifocal Coquette; The Challenges of Situational Awareness; Philosophizing Multiplicity: Cognitive Bottlenecks and Sorting Gloves; Strained Omniscience and the Distracted Heroine; The Crowded Syntax of Sexual Inattention; "Might as Well Be Passed Over as Read": Indulging the Diverted Reader 3 Scattered Attention: Distraction and the Rhythm of Cognitive OverloadRhythms of Narrative, Rhythms of Mind; Tristram's Style and the Scattered Rhythms of Cognitive Overload; Susannah and the Vexed Situation of Madam Reader; The Anatomy of Parallel Processing; The Sermon and Rhythms of Distraction; Hobbyhorses and the Individual Beat of Interest; Irregular Distraction: The Tempo of Cognitive Overload; Rhythms of the Brain: Creativity and the Timing of Distraction; 4 Fixated Attention: The Gothic Pathology of Single-Minded Focus; Microscope and Mind Scientific Metaphors and the Madness of AttentionThe Politics and Poetics of Fixation; Involuntary Attention: A Multifocal Selective Blindness; Sympathy and the Bene.ts of Distraction; Rewriting Suspense: Interruption and the Gothic Sublime; Fixation and the Science of Obsession; 5 Divided Attention: Characterization and Cognitive Richness in Jane Austen; The Power of Multitasking in Pride and Prejudice; The Singular Importance of Inattentive Characters; Mr. Hurst: The Limited Capacity of the Undivided Mind; Mrs. Jenkinson: Narrow Bandwidth and the Creation of Depth Lydia and Miss Bingley: Caricaturing Cognitive VacancyThe Dangers of Too Much Attention; Distraction as Liveliness of Mind; Mary Bennet: Hyperfocus and Cognitive Immobility; Lady Catherine de Bourgh: The Problem of Excessive Vigilance; Elizabeth Bennet: The Bene.ts of Diversion; Characterizing Reading: Maps of Distraction and Interest; Coda: History of Mind and Literary Neuroscience; Interdisciplinarity: From Theory to Practice; Literary Attention: An fMRI Study of Reading Jane Austen; The Value of Literary History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R S |
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Distraction : problems of attention in eighteenth-century literature / / Natalie M. Phillips
| Distraction : problems of attention in eighteenth-century literature / / Natalie M. Phillips |
| Autore | Phillips Natalie M. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/353 |
| Soggetto topico |
Enlightenment - Great Britain
Psychology and literature - History - 18th century Distraction (Psychology) Interest (Psychology) Cognition in literature English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 1-4214-2013-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Literary History of Distraction; The Unifocal and the Multifocal; The Rise of the Distracted Character; Attention, Distraction, and Enlightenment Philosophy of Mind; A Swiftly Tilting Madness; Categorizing Distraction; 1 Mind Wandering: Forms of Distraction in the Eighteenth-Century Essay; Distraction and the Eighteenth-Century Essay; The Rhetoric of Attention: Appealing to Pathos and Brevitas; The Essay as a Tool of Focus; Training Attention to Attention; Strengthening Focus: Repetition and Dramatic Irony
Economies of AttentionThe History of Attention Span; 2 Lapses of Concentration: Distracted Vigilance and the Female Mind; Environment and Mind: Urban Diversion and the Distracted Brain; The Problem of a Soft Female Mind; Sex, Environment, and the Multifocal Coquette; The Challenges of Situational Awareness; Philosophizing Multiplicity: Cognitive Bottlenecks and Sorting Gloves; Strained Omniscience and the Distracted Heroine; The Crowded Syntax of Sexual Inattention; "Might as Well Be Passed Over as Read": Indulging the Diverted Reader 3 Scattered Attention: Distraction and the Rhythm of Cognitive OverloadRhythms of Narrative, Rhythms of Mind; Tristram's Style and the Scattered Rhythms of Cognitive Overload; Susannah and the Vexed Situation of Madam Reader; The Anatomy of Parallel Processing; The Sermon and Rhythms of Distraction; Hobbyhorses and the Individual Beat of Interest; Irregular Distraction: The Tempo of Cognitive Overload; Rhythms of the Brain: Creativity and the Timing of Distraction; 4 Fixated Attention: The Gothic Pathology of Single-Minded Focus; Microscope and Mind Scientific Metaphors and the Madness of AttentionThe Politics and Poetics of Fixation; Involuntary Attention: A Multifocal Selective Blindness; Sympathy and the Bene.ts of Distraction; Rewriting Suspense: Interruption and the Gothic Sublime; Fixation and the Science of Obsession; 5 Divided Attention: Characterization and Cognitive Richness in Jane Austen; The Power of Multitasking in Pride and Prejudice; The Singular Importance of Inattentive Characters; Mr. Hurst: The Limited Capacity of the Undivided Mind; Mrs. Jenkinson: Narrow Bandwidth and the Creation of Depth Lydia and Miss Bingley: Caricaturing Cognitive VacancyThe Dangers of Too Much Attention; Distraction as Liveliness of Mind; Mary Bennet: Hyperfocus and Cognitive Immobility; Lady Catherine de Bourgh: The Problem of Excessive Vigilance; Elizabeth Bennet: The Bene.ts of Diversion; Characterizing Reading: Maps of Distraction and Interest; Coda: History of Mind and Literary Neuroscience; Interdisciplinarity: From Theory to Practice; Literary Attention: An fMRI Study of Reading Jane Austen; The Value of Literary History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R S |
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Educating the child in Enlightenment Britain : beliefs, cultures, practices / / edited by Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin
| Educating the child in Enlightenment Britain : beliefs, cultures, practices / / edited by Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Disciplina | 370.94109033 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HiltonMary <1946->
ShefrinJill |
| Collana | Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present |
| Soggetto topico |
Education - Great Britain - History - 17th century
Education - Great Britain - History - 18th century Education - Great Britain - History - 19th century Enlightenment - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
1-351-94162-3
1-138-25066-X 1-315-25696-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. 'Oh miserable and most ruinous measure' : the debate between private and public education in Britain, 1760-1800 / Sophia Woodley -- 2. Evangelicalism and Enlightenment : the educational agenda of Hannah More / Anne Stott -- 3. Marketing religious identity : female educators, Methodist culture, and eighteenth-century childhood / Mary Clare Martin -- 4. Learning and virtue : English grammar and the eighteenth-century girls' school / Carol Percy -- 5. 'Familiar conversation' : the role of the 'familiar format' in education in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England / Michele Cohen -- 6. Hosting the grand tour : civility, enlightenment, and culture, c. 1740-1790 / Jennifer Mori -- 7. 'Superior to the rudest shocks of adversity' : English Jesuit education and culture in the long eighteenth century, 1688-1832 / Maurice Whitehead -- 8. Colonizing the mind : the use of English writers in the education of the Irish poor, c. 1750-1850 / Deirdre Raftery -- 9. 'Adapted for and used in infants' schools, nurseries, &c.' : booksellers and the infant school market / Jill Shefrin -- 10. Delightful instruction? : assessing children's use of educational books in the long eighteenth century / M.O. Grenby. |
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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La Grande-Bretagne et l’Europe des Lumières / / Serge Soupel
| La Grande-Bretagne et l’Europe des Lumières / / Serge Soupel |
| Autore | Basker James G |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris, : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/24104/09033 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BlackbournDenis-Richard
ButlerGerald J DenizotPaul D’Souza-DeleuryFlorence FreiburgRudolf LeducGuyonne MenneteauPatrick MorèrePierre MurphyMichael PriceJohn Valdimir RealHermann J RoyG. Ross SoupelSerge WagnerPeter |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - European influences
Enlightenment - Great Britain |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Écosse
Europe Grande-Bretagne siècle des Lumières |
| ISBN | 2-87854-867-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910256648903321 |
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| Paris, : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2017 | ||
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Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / / Humberto Garcia
| Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / / Humberto Garcia |
| Autore | Garcia Humberto <1978-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/38297 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism Enlightenment - Great Britain Islam in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4214-0532-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century -- "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna -- Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism -- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial -- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic -- A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Epilogue: postcolonial reflections. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463861003321 |
Garcia Humberto <1978->
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| Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011 | ||
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