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  • Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Edited by Dr. James Grande, Dr. Brian H. Murray ...
    This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and new historical sciences called into question the historicity of Scripture, controversies raged over the performance, publication and censorship of old and new musical forms. From oratorio to ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Spirit of Controversy

    and Other Essays

    by William Hazlitt ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as a young man inspired him to a literary career, but he became disillusioned with them as apostates from the cause of liberty ... Read more

    $2.88 USD

  • Sound and Sense in British Romanticism

    Edited by James Grande, Carmel Raz ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    A radical re-imagining of the relationship between sound and sense took place in Britain in the decades around 1800. This new approach reconfigured sound as central to understandings of space and temporality, from the diurnal rhythms of everyday life in the modern city to the 'deep time' of the natural world. At the same time, sound emerged as a frequently disruptive phenomenon, a philosophical ... Read more

    $95.19 USD

  • William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England

    Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1792-1835

    by James Grande ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Opinions of William Cobbett

    by James Grande, John Stevenson ...
    Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, William Cobbett cut a swathe through late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century British society with his copious and acerbic writings on any and every issue that caught his attention. Both a radical and a conservative, and with strong opinions on any given subject, Cobbett had a ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • English Pastoral Music

    From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955

    by Eric Saylor ...
    Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination. As Saylor shows, pastoral music adapted and transformed ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Every Valley

    The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

    by Charles King ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah."A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty and adventure."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World"A book of power and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia

    by Charles Lamb ...
    Lamb's greatest work. According to Wikipedia: "Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English/Welsh essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (17641847). Lamb has been referred to by E.V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as the most lovable figure in English ... Read more

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  • Reading 1759

    Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

    Edited by Shaun Regan ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    by Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

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  • The Devil: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Darren Oldridge ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why do the innocent suffer in a world created by a loving God? Does this mean that God cannot prevent this suffering, despite His supposed omnipotence? Or is God not loving after all? This in brief is 'the problem of evil'. The Devil provides one solution to this problem: his rebellion against God and hatred of His works is responsible for evil.The Christian Devil has fascinated writers and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Delphi Classics)

    by William Hazlitt, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 11 - Delphi Series Six
    The greatest art critic of his age, William Hazlitt is celebrated for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. Hazlitt was an influential drama critic, social commentator and philosopher, now widely considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language. This comprehensive eBook presents Hazlitt’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts appearing in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD