Teaching Charlotte Lennoxs Harriot Stuart: Romance, the Eighteenth-Century Novel, and Transatlantic Fictions

Dutch transatlantic medicine trade in the eighteenth century under the cover of the West Indies Company

Nazi past, and government assistance was often inadequate as a result. Similar uneasiness is still evident in Russia towards veterans of the war in Afghanistan (1979-89), as Ethel Dunn reminds us. Dunn shows that the shift to a market economy led to the virtual collapse of state assistance for all disabled veterans in Russia: retrenchment has left the welfare system unable to pay for benefits e...

Novel spectators: spectatorship in the eighteenth-century novel

Tom Jones is a typical eighteenth-century hero: he is beaten, bullied, seduced, betrayed, and banished by numerous other characters in the narrative. He performs very little action himself, and that rather unsuccessfully. In one escapade in Book XIII, the hero overwhelmed by London society and ignored by his hosts, Fielding writes that “Poor Jones was rather a Spectator of this elegant scene, t...

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