Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “allison stedman”
Skip side bar filters

  • A Trip to the Country

    By Henriette-Julie De Castelnau, Comtesse De Murat

    by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau ...
    Translated by Allison Stedman, Perry Gethner ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    Translates an important example of late seventeenth-century French hybrid experimental fiction that provided the primary literary backdrop for the first French fairy tales.Popular with the worldly aristocracy, late seventeenth-century experimental novels like the Countess de Murat's Voyage de campagne ( A Trip to the Country) were published in small format, widely circulated, and reprinted more ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

    Seditious Frivolity

    by Allison Stedman ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • 1688: The First Modern Revolution

    by Steve Pincus ...

    $28.79 USD

  • The Devil Comes to Dartmoor

    The Amazing True Story of Mary Howard, Devon's 'Demon Bride'

    by Laura Quigley ...
    Many will have heard of the ghostly white lady haunting Tavistock – the notorious Mary Howard, accused of murdering her four husbands. A few may know the true story of her lover, George Cutteford, a Plymouth 'cutty man' who became a Puritan lawyer. Cutteford was imprisoned in the horror of Lydford Gaol, persecuted by Mary's fourth husband - Sir Richard Grenville, the most notorious and sadistic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crisis of the European Mind

    1680-1715

    by Paul Hazard ...
    Translated by J. Lewis May ...
    Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the future, Hazard traces the process by which new developmentsin the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Seventeenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 3)

    Making Ireland Modern – The Quest For a Settlement

    by Raymond Gillespie ...
    Series Book 3 - New Gill History of Ireland
    In Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Professor Raymond Gillespie, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, tries to understand Ireland in the seventeenth century in a new way. Most surveys of seventeenth-century Ireland approach the period using war, conquest, plantation and colonisation as their organising themes. It does not see Ireland as a passive receptor of colonial ideas imposed from above. In ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kings & Queens of Scotland

    by Timothy Venning ...
    The kingdom of Scots was the last of the non-Anglo-Saxon states of Britain to survive as a political entity. Alone of the ‘Celtic’ nations, it was not absorbed into England by conquest. James VI of Scotland came to the throne of England in 1603, and when union with England finally came in 1707 during the reign of Queen Anne, it was technically on equal terms. This success owed much to the ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • A History of County Wexford

    A comprehensive study of Wexford's history, culture and people

    by Nicholas Furlong ...
    Brimming with vitality and information, Nicholas Furlong's comprehensive A History of County Wexford is an indispensable guide to Wexford's history, culture and people. Furlong starts with Wexford's first settlement and tells the story of Wexford up to the present day, looking at its Gaelic origins, its turbulence during Cromwellian times and its pivotal role in 1798. County Wexford lies in the ... Read more

    $3.74 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Der Lange Türkenkrieg (1593-1606) Vol. I

    The long Turkish war - Habsburgs arrest the Ottoman advance

    by Bruno Mugnai, Christopher Flaherty ...
    Series Book 24 - Soldiers&Weapons
    After more than half-a-century of wars in Hungary, the conflict between the Habsburgs and the Sublime Porte explodes in 1593, after a series of border incidents. The confrontation was soon regarded as crucial by both sides, also involving the neighbouring states in a complex and ruthless game of diplomacy and betrayal. The organization and the equipment of the various armies of the protagonists of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Women, Education, and Agency, 1600–2000

    Edited by Jean Spence, Sarah Aiston, Maureen M. Meikle ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    This collection of essays brings together an international roster of contributors to provide historical insight into women’s agency and activism in education throughout from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Topics discussed range from the strategies adopted by individual women to achieve a personal education and the influence of educated women upon their social environment, to the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Image Wars: Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-1660

    by Kevin Sharpe ...

    $45.09 USD

  • The Dasmari�ases, Early Governors of the Spanish Philippines

    by John Newsome Crossley ...
    Building upon Dr Crossley's 2011 book ('Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age') this new work further expands our understanding of the Spanish Philippines by looking at Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas and his son Luis, successive governors from 1589. Drawing upon a rich selection of documents from the official Spanish archives (principally the Archivo General de Indias, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD