The Quakers in English Society, 1655-1725 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

The Quakers in English society, 1655-172

📁 The Quakers in English society, 1655-1725

✍ Adrian Davies, Dr 📂 Library 🌐 English

The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social élite but what of Friends' relationships with others? By examining Quaker attitudes to neighbourliness, the family, the rites of passage, business, and other links, this lively and original study demonstrates that Quakers were not the marginal and is

Sociable Criticism in England 1625-1725

📁 Sociable Criticism in England 1625-1725

✍ Paul Trolander, Zeynep Tenger 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 University of Delaware Press 🌐 English

Sociable Criticism in England explores how from 1625 to 1725 cultural practices and discourses of sociability (rules for small-group discussion, friendship discourse, and patron-client relationships) determined the venues within which critical judgments were rendered, disseminated, and received. It

Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 (Oxfor

📁 Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 (Oxford English Monographs)

✍ Hero Chalmers 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalized. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive mod

Conrad and History (Oxford English Monog

📁 Conrad and History (Oxford English Monographs)

✍ Richard Niland 📂 Library 📅 2010 🌐 English

This book examines the philosophy of history and the subject of the nation in the literature of Joseph Conrad. It explores the importance of nineteenth-century Polish Romantic philosophy in Conrad's literary development, arguing that the Polish response to Hegelian traditions of historiography in ni

The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay,

📁 The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625–1725

✍ Abbott Lowell Cummings 📂 Library 📅 1979 🏛 Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Pr 🌐 English

<p><span>A nation's buildings are a record of the character and aspirations of its people. In a rich blend of social and architectural history, Abbott Lowell Cummings reconstructs, through text and pictures, the framed houses of Massachusetts Bay that reflect the straightforward honesty of our earli

The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay,

📁 The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725

✍ Abbott Lowell Cummings 📂 Library 📅 1979 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

<p><span>A nation's buildings are a record of the character and aspirations of its people. In a rich blend of social and architectural history, Abbott Lowell Cummings reconstructs, through text and pictures, the framed houses of Massachusetts Bay that reflect the straightforward honesty of our earli