"With its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea, cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how dominion over "the …
"Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec's educational history extends the sop…
Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people.
Using the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of criminal court records surviving from Upper Canada, the author explores how far local characteristics affected the operation of a criminal justice system transplanted from England. His analysis includes:…
"Investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and thei…
Anthology of translated extracts from their works.
"Achim von Arnim, Bildungsroman, Classicism, German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Dennis F. Mahoney, Novalis, novel, Jean Paul, Romanticism, Friedrich Schiller"--
"Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Back cover.
The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. This title explores the relation in the context of late 18th and early 19th century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of n…
"William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique in…
In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics. The present volume is the first to probe into an associa…
