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Cultures of improvement in Scottish romanticism, 1707-1840 / / edited by Alex Benchimol and Gerard Lee McKeever
| Cultures of improvement in Scottish romanticism, 1707-1840 / / edited by Alex Benchimol and Gerard Lee McKeever |
| Autore | Benchimol Alex |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Taylor & Francis, 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/14509411 |
| Collana | The enlightenment world |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism
Romanticism - Scotland Scottish literature - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Adam Budd
Alex Deans century courant edinburgh eighteenth enlightenment evening Gerard Carruthers Gerard Lee McKeever late Megan Coyer Michael Morris magazine Nigel Leask Penny Fielding Sarah Sharp scotland scots Tom Furniss |
| ISBN |
1-351-05641-7
1-351-05642-5 1-351-05640-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | part, I Print, Progress and Politeness -- chapter Introduction -- Mapping Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism / Alex Benchimol Gerard Lee McKeever -- chapter 1 Andrew Millar’s ‘Good Vouchers’ -- The Malt Tax Crisis and Trade in Controversy / Adam Budd -- chapter 2 Let Scotland Flourish by the Printing of the Word -- Commerce, Civic Enlightenment and National Improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1783–1800 / Alex Benchimol -- chapter 3 ‘Simplicity, Rightly Understood’ -- Improvement in the Collaboration of Robert Burns and George Thomson / Gerard Lee McKeever -- part, II Literature, Land and Commerce -- chapter 4 Thomas Pennant, National Description and the Project of Improvement / Nigel Leask -- chapter 5 The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Improvement -- David Dale, Robert Owen and New Lanark Cotton / Michael Morris -- chapter 6 Pastoral Optimism at Improvement’s Frontier -- James Hogg’s Highland Journeys / Alex Deans -- chapter 7 ‘Earth and Stone’ -- Improvement, Entailment and Geographical Futures in the Novel of the 1820s / Penny Fielding -- part, III Death, Legacy and Medicine -- chapter 8 Reading John Anderson’s Will -- Improving Human Nature, Science and Scotland in a Commercial Society / Tom Furniss -- chapter 9 Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) / Megan Coyer -- chapter 10 A Death in the Cottage -- Spiritual and Economic Improvement in Romantic-Era Scottish Death Narratives / Sarah Sharp -- chapter 11 Postscript -- Varieties of Cultural Improvement in the Long Eighteenth Century / Gerard Carruthers. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765873903321 |
Benchimol Alex
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| Taylor & Francis, 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Japanese studies in Britain : a survey and history / / edited by Hugh Cortazzi and Peter Kornicki [[electronic resource]]
| Japanese studies in Britain : a survey and history / / edited by Hugh Cortazzi and Peter Kornicki [[electronic resource]] |
| Edizione | [Japan Society paperback edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Folkstone, Kent : , : Renaissance Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxviii, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 952 |
| Soggetto topico |
Japan-Study and teaching (Higher)-United States
EDUCATION / Higher |
| Soggetto non controllato |
business
cardiff edinburgh government newcastle oxbridge sisjac soas |
| ISBN | 1-898823-59-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Relevant Biographical Portraits -- PART I History -- 1 A Brief History of Japanese Studies in Britain – from the 1860s to the Twenty-first Century -- 2 British Missionaries and Japanese Studies in Pre-war Japan -- 3 British Consular and Military Officers in Japan Before 1941 -- PART II Japanese Studies at Universities -- 4 Cambridge University -- 5 Japanese Library Collections: Cambridge and Elsewhere -- 6 Cardiff University -- 7 Durham University -- 8 University of East Anglia -- 9 University of Edinburgh -- 10 University of Leeds -- 11 London School of Economics -- 12 Manchester University -- 13 University of Newcastle -- 14 Oxford University -- 15 Oxford Brookes -- 16 Sheffield University -- 17 SOAS, University of London -- 18 The White Rose East Asia Centre: Collaboration in Japanese Studies Between the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield -- 19 Japanese Studies at Other Universities in Britain -- PART III Foundations and Other Organizations -- 20 The British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) -- 21 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Japanese Studies in UK Universities -- 22 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation: Japanese Studies Funding and Policy, 1985–2016 -- 23 The Japan Foundation’s Support for Japanese Studies in Britain -- 24 The Japan Society and Japanese Studies in the UK -- 25 Japanese Studies in the UK: The Role of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science -- 26 The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures -- 27 The Tanaka Fund and its Impact on Japanese Studies Library Collections in the UK through the JFEC and the JLG Cooperative Acquisitions Scheme -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796307903321 |
| Folkstone, Kent : , : Renaissance Books, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Japanese studies in Britain : a survey and history / / edited by Hugh Cortazzi and Peter Kornicki [[electronic resource]]
| Japanese studies in Britain : a survey and history / / edited by Hugh Cortazzi and Peter Kornicki [[electronic resource]] |
| Edizione | [Japan Society paperback edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Folkstone, Kent : , : Renaissance Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxviii, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 952 |
| Soggetto topico |
Japan-Study and teaching (Higher)-United States
EDUCATION / Higher |
| Soggetto non controllato |
business
cardiff edinburgh government newcastle oxbridge sisjac soas |
| ISBN | 1-898823-59-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Relevant Biographical Portraits -- PART I History -- 1 A Brief History of Japanese Studies in Britain – from the 1860s to the Twenty-first Century -- 2 British Missionaries and Japanese Studies in Pre-war Japan -- 3 British Consular and Military Officers in Japan Before 1941 -- PART II Japanese Studies at Universities -- 4 Cambridge University -- 5 Japanese Library Collections: Cambridge and Elsewhere -- 6 Cardiff University -- 7 Durham University -- 8 University of East Anglia -- 9 University of Edinburgh -- 10 University of Leeds -- 11 London School of Economics -- 12 Manchester University -- 13 University of Newcastle -- 14 Oxford University -- 15 Oxford Brookes -- 16 Sheffield University -- 17 SOAS, University of London -- 18 The White Rose East Asia Centre: Collaboration in Japanese Studies Between the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield -- 19 Japanese Studies at Other Universities in Britain -- PART III Foundations and Other Organizations -- 20 The British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) -- 21 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Japanese Studies in UK Universities -- 22 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation: Japanese Studies Funding and Policy, 1985–2016 -- 23 The Japan Foundation’s Support for Japanese Studies in Britain -- 24 The Japan Society and Japanese Studies in the UK -- 25 Japanese Studies in the UK: The Role of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science -- 26 The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures -- 27 The Tanaka Fund and its Impact on Japanese Studies Library Collections in the UK through the JFEC and the JLG Cooperative Acquisitions Scheme -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807253903321 |
| Folkstone, Kent : , : Renaissance Books, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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