Natural Science Books in English, 1600-1900
Title | Natural Science Books in English, 1600-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Knight |
Publisher | London : Batsford |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
The Eighteenth Century
Title | The Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Rogers |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2020-01-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 100003108X |
The aim of this book, originally published in 1978, is to make the reading of literary classics such as Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Jones, The Beggar’s Opera and Tristram Shandy an even richer experience by giving them an intelligible place in history. The ‘context’ is seen not as a vague backcloth, but as a living fabric of ideas and events which animate Augustan literature. The authors cover the achievements of men like Hume, Walpole, Chippendale, Newton and Reynolds, who are often merely names to the literary student, and show how writers were affected by exciting developments in psychology, aesthetics, medicine and other fields. As a whole the book shows this period to have been an active, questing and complex era, whose literary masterpieces emanate from a rich and diverse culture.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Title | National Library of Medicine Current Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
English Prose of the Nineteenth Century
Title | English Prose of the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Hilary Fraser |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2017-07-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1315505355 |
Hilary Fraser provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of English prose in the nineteenth century which draws from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticisim, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage. Through these works the cultural, social, literary and political life of the twentieth century - a period of great intellectual activity - can be charted, discussed and assessed. For the first time, an inclusive critical survey of nineteenth-century non-fiction is presented, that traces the century's ideological and cultural upheavals as they are registered in the literary textures of some of its most widely read and influential writings.The book explores the relations between writers who are generally perceived as occupying different discursive spheres, for example between John Stuart Mill, Florence Nightingale and Mrs Beeton; between Cardinal Newman, Elizabeth Gaskell and Hannah Cullwick; and between Charles Darwin, David Livingstone and Henry Mayhew. The establishment and development of different genres and their interactions over the century are clearly mapped. The genre of the periodical essay, a distinctively modern and flexible form catering to the mass readership, is the subject of the introduction, and then more specialist fields are discussed, covering scientific writing, travel and exploration literature, social reportage, biography, autobiography, journals, letters, religious and philosophical prose, political writing and history.
Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors
Title | Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hunter |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351878956 |
In the 25 years since the last edition of Thornton and Tully’s Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors was published, scientific publishing has mushroomed, developed new forms, and the academic discipline and popular appreciation of the history of science have grown apace. This fourth edition discusses these changes and ponders the implications of developments in publishing at the end of the twentieth century, while concentrating its gaze upon the dissemination of scientific ideas and knowledge from Antiquity to the industrial age. In this shift of focus it departs from previous editions, and for the first time a chapter on Islamic science is included. Recurrent themes in several of the ten essays in the present volume are the definition of ’science’ itself, and its transmutation by publishing media and the social context. Two essays on the collecting of scientific books provide a counterpoint, and the book is grounded on a rigorous chapter on bibliographies. The timely publication of Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors comes at the coincidence of the advent of electronic publishing and the millennium, a dramatic moment at which to take stock.
Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
Title | Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers PDF eBook |
Author | Anne C. McDermott |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 529 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 135187022X |
The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first English dictionary. This collection demonstrates the inaccuracy of that claim, but its tenacity in the public mind testifies to how decisively Johnson formed our sense of what a dictionary is. The essays and articles in this volume examine the already flourishing tradition of English lexicography from which Johnson drew, as represented by Kersey, Bailey, and Martin, as well as the flourishing contemporary trade in encyclopedic, technical, pronunciation, and bilingual lexicons.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 6, 1830–1914
Title | The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 6, 1830–1914 PDF eBook |
Author | David McKitterick |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 940 |
Release | 2009-03-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 131617588X |
The years 1830–1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form.