Recent structural interventions to the eighteenth-century Greatham Bridge, UK

Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

I began reading for this review aiming to seize the SEL opportunity, in customary fashion, to refl ect on current trends in the fi eld. I soon found it was easy enough to identify a recurrent theme. More diffi cult was the problem of sorting out whether this was a common feature of the books I was reading or a function of the interest I found myself bringing to them. I decided to adopt the Word...

The eighteenth-century campaign to avoid disease

lunatic asylums, the tentative steps towards non-asylum psychiatric practice in the first half of the twentieth century, and the subsequent adoption of a policy euphemistically called "6community care". Busfield has read quite widely in the recent secondary literature, and draws upon a diverse range of scholarship (MacDonald, Parry-Jones, Kathleen Jones, Hunter and Macalpine, Aubrey Lewis, Scul...

Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth century in England was an age equal to the age of Augustus Caesar, when the Roman society had reached the peak of its glory. The name Augustan Age was chosen by writers who saw in Pope, Addison, Swift, Johnson and Burke the modern parallels to Horace, Virgil and Cicero, and all that brilliant company who made Roman literature famous in the day of Augustus. Past ages of England were l...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe