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  • Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest  (10)
  • Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp
  • England  (28)
  • English Studies  (28)
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  • 1
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    Mary Wollstonecraft in context (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108416993 , 9781108404235
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxiii, 358 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mary Wollstonecraft in context
    DDC: 828/.609
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    Keywords: Wollstonecraft, Mary Criticism and interpretation ; England Intellectual life 18th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wollstonecraft, Mary 1759-1797 ; England ; Geistesleben ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Abstract: "An article that appeared in the April 1797 edition of the Monthly Magazine entitled "On Artificial Taste" offered readers a meditation on two of the most widely noted dimensions of this popular theme: "a taste for rural scenes" and the more "natural" quality of poetry that had been "written in the infancy of society." In some ways, both of these were standard topics, frequently discussed in the literary magazines of the day, though the article addressed them with compelling rigour and clarity, and with a refreshing impatience for empty poses and cultural double standards. It was curious, the author suggested, given people's widely professed love of nature, "how few people seem to contemplate nature with their own eyes. I have 'brushed the dew away' in the morning; but, pacing over the printless grass, I have wondered that, in such delightful situations, the sun was allowed to rise in solitary majesty, whilst my eyes alone hailed its beautifying beams." Having offered a no-nonsense reflection on the state of people's real interest in nature beyond the sort of "romantic kind of declamation" that was so much in vogue, the author moved on to offer a fairly standard list of the age's assumptions: poetry is a "transcript of immediate emotions" transfigured by the effects of those "happy moment[s]" in which the poet is enriched by images "spontaneously bursting on him" without the need for any recourse to "understanding or memory." This account of creativity, like the article's definition of the poet as "a man of strong feelings" giving "us a picture of his mind when he was actually alone, conversing with himself, and marking the impression which nature made on his own heart" seemed to converge with William Wordsworth's ideas about poetry in his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Its related insistence on the higher spiritual worth of those moments when the poet worshipped "in a temple not made with hands, and the world seems to contain only the mind that formed and contemplates it" seemed to echo Pysche's declaration of sublime internalization in Keats' ode. Except, of course, that the article was published in April 1797, well ahead of Wordsworth's account in the Preface to the 1800 edition of the Lyrical Ballads and a full generation before Keats's work"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 332-351
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  • 2
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    Storied ground : landscape and the shaping of English national identity (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108424738
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.20942
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    HD 405
    Keywords: Cultural landscapes ; Landscapes Symbolic aspects ; National characteristics, English ; Landscapes ; National characteristics, English ; England Historical geography ; England ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Landschaft ; Geschichte 1780-1914
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108344043
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  • 3
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    Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s : the laurel of liberty (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107133617
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 272 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in romanticism 112
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in romanticism
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mee, Jon, 1963 - Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mee, Jon, 1963 - Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s
    DDC: 302.23/2094109033
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    HL 1091
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    HL 1131
    Keywords: Mass media and public opinion History 18th century ; Mass media and publicity History 18th century ; Radicalism History 18th century ; Politics and literature History 18th century ; Popular culture History 18th century ; Mass media and public opinion History ; 18th century ; England ; London ; Mass media and publicity History ; 18th century ; England ; London ; Radicalism History ; 18th century ; England ; London ; Politics and literature History ; 18th century ; England ; London ; Popular culture History ; 18th century ; England ; London ; Radicalism in mass media ; London ; Presse ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Radikalismus ; Geschichte 1792-1795
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
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    Monuments and literary posterity in early modern drama (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107123472
    Language: German , English
    Pages: xi, 222 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 822/.309
    RVK:
    HI 1250
    Keywords: English drama History and criticism Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 ; English drama History and criticism 17th century ; Monuments in literature ; Memorials in literature ; Drama Publishing 16th century ; History ; Drama Publishing 17th century ; History ; England ; Theater ; Denkmal ; Bestattung ; Autor ; Geschichte 1600-1710 ; England ; Literatur ; Theater ; Denkmal ; Bestattung ; Geschichte 1600-1710
    Abstract: "In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book re-evaluates the relationship between these early modern dramatists and literary posterity by considering their work within the context of post-Reformation memorialization. Providing fresh analyses of plays by major dramatists, Brian Chalk considers how they depicted monuments and other funeral properties on stage in order to exploit and criticize the rich ambiguities of commemorative rituals. The book also discusses the print history of the plays featured. The subject will attract scholars and upper-level students of Renaissance drama, memory studies, early modern theatre, and print history"--
    Abstract: "In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book re-evaluates the relationship between these early modern dramatists and literary posterity by considering their work within the context of post-Reformation memorialization. Providing fresh analyses of plays by major dramatists, Brian Chalk considers how they depicted monuments and other funeral properties on stage in order to exploit and criticize the rich ambiguities of commemorative rituals. The book also discusses the print history of the plays featured. The subject will attract scholars and upper-level students of Renaissance drama, memory studies, early modern theatre, and print history"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: 'raptures of futurity'; 1. 'Let All things End': Marlowe's immortality; 2. Jonson's textual monument; 3. Webster's 'worthyest monument': the problem of posterity in The Duchess of Malfi; 4. 'Mocking life': preemptive commemoration in The Winter's Tale; 5. Fletcher's future: dynasty and collaborative posterity in Henry VIII; Coda: what they hath left us; Select bibliography; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 210-219
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  • 5
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    Understanding national identity (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107100381 , 9781107496194
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 226 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    DDC: 305.8
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    HD 405
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    LB 48000
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    LB 52000
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    MC 7100
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Gesellschaft ; Nationalismus ; National characteristics ; Nationalism ; Identity (Psychology) Social aspects ; Group identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Nationalcharakter ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Schottland ; England ; England ; Schottland ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalcharakter
    Abstract: "We live in a world in which being a 'citizen' of a state and being a 'national' are by no means the same. Amidst much scholarly debate about 'nations' and 'nationalism', comparatively little has been written explicitly on 'national identity' and a great deal less is solidly evidence-based. This book focuses on national identity in England and Scotland. Using data collected over twenty years it asks: does national identity really matter to people? How does 'national identity' differ from 'nationality' and having a passport? Are there particular people and places which have ambiguous or contested national identities? What happens if someone makes a claim to a national identity? On what basis do others accept or reject the claim? Does national identity have much internal substance, or is it simply about defending group boundaries? How does national identity relate to politics and constitutional change?"..
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 210-219
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  • 6
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    The memory of the people : custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139034739
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 396 pages)
    DDC: 340.5/709420903
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    NN 4030
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    NN 7500
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    NK 5060
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    HD 300
    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Gewohnheitsrecht ; Volksrechte ; Geschichtsbewusstsein ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; England
    Abstract: Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics of popular memory; local identities and traditions; gender and custom; literacy, orality and memory; landscape, space and memory; and the legacy of this cultural world for later generations. Drawing from a wealth of sources ranging from legal proceedings and parochial writings to proverbs and estate papers, he shows how custom formed a body of ideas built up generation after generation from localized patterns of cooperation and conflict. This is a unique account of the intimate connection between landscape, place and identity and of how the poorer and middling sort felt about the world around them.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034739
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  • 7
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    A social history of England, 900-1200 (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511976056
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online Ressource (xv, 454 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0942/09021
    RVK:
    HD 300
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    HD 400
    RVK:
    NM 9300
    RVK:
    NW 2350
    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 900-1200 ; Wirtschaft ; England / Social conditions ; England / Economic conditions ; England ; England ; Sozialgeschichte 900-1200
    Abstract: The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were complicated and accelerated by repeated episodes of invasion, migration and changes of regime. In this book, scholars from disciplines including history, archaeology and literature reflect on the major trends which shaped English society in these years of transition and select key themes which encapsulate the period. The authors explore the landscape of England, its mineral wealth, its towns and rural life, the health, behaviour and obligations of its inhabitants, patterns of spiritual and intellectual life and the polyglot nature of its population and culture. What emerges is an insight into the complexity, diversity and richness of this formative period of English history
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511976056
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  • 8
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    Ends of Life : Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (2009)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780191567551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (410 pages)
    DDC: 302.5409420903
    RVK:
    NK 5060
    RVK:
    HD 403
    RVK:
    HK 1081
    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Lebensphilosophie ; Selbstverwirklichung ; England
    Abstract: The Ends of Life examines the ways in which English men and women between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries sought to lead fulfilling lives. In doing so it illuminates the central values of the period, while at the same time throwing incidental light on some of the perennial problems of human existence. - ;How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values of the period, while casting incidental light on some of the perennial problems of humanexistence. Consideration of the origins of the modern ideal of human fulfilment and of obstacles to its realization in the early modern period frames an investigation that ranges from work, wealth, and possessions to the pleasures of friendship, family, and sociability. The cult of military prowess, the pursuit of honour and reputation, the nature of religious belief and scepticism, and the desire to be posthumously remembered are all drawn into the discussion, and the views and practices of ordinarypeople are measured against the opinions of the leading philosophers and theologians of the time.The Ends of Life offers a fresh approach to the history of early modern England, by one of the foremost historians of our time. It also provides modern readers with much food for thought on the problem of how we should live and what goals in life we should pursue. - ;It takes phenomenal learning and scholarly chutzpah to pull off a book like this. - Jonathan Wright The Independent;Pure delight. - John Morrill, BBC History Magazine;Lets thanks Keith Thomas for...
    Abstract: writing such a brave and sensitive book. - Jonathan Wright, The Independent;Any new book by Sir Keith Thomas is a major event. - John Morrill, BBC History Magazine;It's full of wonderful sentences and phrases. - David Sexton, Evening Standard.;The Ends of Life is captivating. - David Sexton, Evening Standard;The sheer wealth and diversity of material in 'The Ends of Life' makes it a fascinating read. - Lisa Jardine, Financial Times;It is hard indeed to imagine a better introduction to the early modern world. It will be immediately and universally recognized as indispensable, not just for historians, but for anyone with an interest in the past.' - David Wooton, Times Literary Supplement;'The Ends of Life'...scatters bright insights into the habits of thought of early modern England. - Graham Parry, The Guardian;Endlessly fascinating...elegant, incisive and entertaining book. - Tim Blanning, Sunday Telegraph;The writing is lucid and elegant, peppered with dry wit and overseen by an infallible eye for anecdotes. - Peter Marshall, Literary Review;Where Thomas excels, as ever, is in his eye for luminous supporting detail. - D. J. Taylor, The Independent;A teeming historical survey. - Sunday Times;A triumphal demonstration that one of our leading historians is still at the height of his powers. - Peter Marshall, Literary Review;Exhilaratingly illuminating. - Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman;Fascinating book. - John Carey, Sunday Times.
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  • 9
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    Englishness : Twentieth-Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity (2009)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780748632541
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (209 pages)
    DDC: 305.82/1
    RVK:
    HD 300
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Massenkultur ; England
    Abstract: An innovative and accessible study of English identities in the twentieth century. The book examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state.
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  • 10
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    politics of Englishness (2007)
    Manchester : Manchester University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781847792044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (265 pages)
    DDC: 305.82/1
    RVK:
    HD 300
    RVK:
    NK 2100
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Politische Identität ; Großbritannien ; England ; Literaturbericht
    Abstract: The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the English Question, it also enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural factors which constitute that question.The book addresses the condition of England in three interrelated parts. The first looks at traditional narratives of the English polity and reads them as variations of a legend of political Englishness, of England as the exemplary exception, exceptional in its constitutional tradition and exemplary in its political stability. The second considers how the decay of that legend has encouraged anxieties about English political identity and about how English identity can be recognised within the new complexity of British governance. The third revisits these narratives and anxieties, examining them in terms of actual and metaphorical 'locations' of Englishness: the regional, the European and the British.
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  • 11
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    The Italian encounter with Tudor England : a cultural politics of translation (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511484094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 371 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture 51
    DDC: 306.44094209024
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    HI 1144
    Keywords: Kulturkontakt ; Renaissance ; Italien ; England
    Abstract: The small but influential community of Italians that took shape in England in the fifteenth century initially consisted of ecclesiastics, humanists, merchants, bankers and artists. However, in the wake of the English Reformation, Italian Protestants joined other continental religious refugees in finding Tudor England to be a hospitable and productive haven, and they brought with them a cultural perspective informed by the ascendency among European elites of their vernacular language. This study maintains that questions of language are at the centre of the circulation of ideas in the early modern period. Wyatt first examines the agency of this shifting community of immigrant Italians in the transmission of Italy's cultural patrimony and its impact on the nascent English nation; Part Two turns to the exemplary career of John Florio, the Italo-Englishman who worked as a language teacher, lexicographer and translator in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484094
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  • 12
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    Pronouncing Shakespeare : the Globe experiment (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511113641 , 9780511113130 , 9780511487019 , 9780511122026 , 0511487010 , 0511113137 , 9780511113642 , 0511112130 , 9780511112133 , 0511122020
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 188 p , ill , 21 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2005 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Pronouncing Shakespeare
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    Keywords: Shakespeare, William Stage history ; England ; London ; Shakespeare, William Stage history ; 1950- ; Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet ; Shakespeare, William Language ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Stage history ; England ; London ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Stage history ; 1950- ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Language ; Shakespeare, William Stage history ; Shakespeare, William Stage history ; Shakespeare, William ; Shakespeare, William Language ; Shakespeare, William Stage history ; Shakespeare, William Stage history ; Shakespeare, William ; Shakespeare, William Language ; Shakespeare, William Language ; Shakespeare, William Stage history ; England ; London ; Shakespeare, William Stage history ; 1950- ; Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet ; Shakespeare, William ; Shakespeare, William ; Shakespeare, William ; Shakespeare, William ; Globe Theatre (London, England : 1996- ) ; Globe Theatre (London, England : 1996- ) ; Globe Theatre (London, England : 1996- ) ; Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William) ; Romeo and Juliet ; William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ; Electronic books ; English language Pronunciation ; Early modern, 1500-1700 ; English language Pronunciation Early modern, 1500-1700 ; English language Pronunciation Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Electronic books ; English language Pronunciation ; Early modern, 1500-1700 ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Shakespeare ; DRAMA ; Shakespeare ; English language ; Early modern ; Pronunciation ; Language and languages ; Aussprache ; Frühneuenglisch ; Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) ; Uitspraak (taalkunde) ; Toneelvoorstellingen ; Globe Theatre ; Literatura inglesa ; Teatro elizabetano ; Aufführung ; Phonetik ; England ; London ; Globe Theatre (London, England : 1996- ) ; Electronic books Electronic books ; William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ; Aufführung ; Phonetik ; Geschichte 2004 ; William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ; Aufführung ; Phonetik ; Geschichte 2004
    Abstract: "How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How canwe know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days in June 2004 Shakespeare's Globe presented their production of Romeo and Juliet in original, Shakespearian pronunciation. This book tells the story of how it happened ... In an unusual blend of autobiography, narrative, and academic content, reflecting the unique nature of the experience, David Crystal recounts the first attempt in over fifty years to mount a Full-length Shakespeare play in original pronunciation. The story begins by introducing the Globe theatre and its approach to 'original practices', which had dealt with all aspects of Elizabethan Stagecraft--except pronunciation. It traces the way the idea developed, from the initial proposal in 2003 through planning and rehearsals to the full-scale production in 2004. A large section is devoted to the nature of the Early Modern English sound system and the evidence for it. Other major sections include reports of how the actors coped with the task of learning the pronunciation, how it affected their performances, and how the audiences reacted."-- Publisher's description
    Abstract: "How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How canwe know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days in June 2004 Shakespeare's Globe presented their production of Romeo and Juliet in original, Shakespearian pronunciation. This book tells the story of how it happened ... In an unusual blend of autobiography, narrative, and academic content, reflecting the unique nature of the experience, David Crystal recounts the first attempt in over fifty years to mount a Full-length Shakespeare play in original pronunciation. The story begins by introducing the Globe theatre and its approach to 'original practices', which had dealt with all aspects of Elizabethan Stagecraft--except pronunciation. It traces the way the idea developed, from the initial proposal in 2003 through planning and rehearsals to the full-scale production in 2004. A large section is devoted to the nature of the Early Modern English sound system and the evidence for it. Other major sections include reports of how the actors coped with the task of learning the pronunciation, how it affected their performances, and how the audiences reacted."-- Publisher's description
    Note: Title from ebook title screen (viewed on June 7, 2005) , Includes index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2005 , Prologue , Proposal; Reaction; Transcription; Meeting ; Evidence; Spelling; Orthoepists; Sound patterns; Decisions; Styles; Challenges; Differences; Features; Consonants; Vowels; Long vowels; Diphthongs; Individual cases; Resonances ; Rehearsal; Meeting; Refining; Finalizing; On stage; PR ; Performance; Interpretations; Dimensions; Talkback ; Consequences; Theatrical; Future; Epilogue; App. 1. Chief distinctive Early Modern English vowels ; App. 2. Extracts from the transcription.
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    Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781351872324
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (285 Seiten)
    DDC: 320.08209420903
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    HI 1115
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    NN 4040
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    NW 8100
    Keywords: Geschichte 1450-1700 ; Frau ; Politik ; Neuzeit ; Women - History - Renaissance, 1450-1600 ; England ; Konferenzschrift 2001
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    The making of English national identity (2003)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511550058 , 0521777364 , 0521771889 , 9780521771887 , 9780521777360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 367 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kumar, Krishan, 1942 - The making of English national identity
    DDC: 942
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    Keywords: National characteristics, English History. ; Nationalism England ; History. ; Imperialism History. ; Imperialism History ; Nationalism History ; National characteristics, English History ; National characteristics, English ; History ; Nationalism ; England ; History ; Imperialism ; History ; England ; Civilization ; England Civilization. ; England Civilization ; England ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Politische Identität ; Großbritannien ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Politische Identität ; England ; Nationalcharakter ; Großbritannien ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 English or British? The question of English national identity; A natural confusion; Britain and the British; England and the English; British studies: in search of the national identity; 2 Nations and nationalism: civic, ethnic and imperial; English nationalism - a peculiar thing?; Political and cultural nations; The ambiguities of nationhood; Nations before nationalism, nationalism before nations; Missionary nationalism; Nation and empire; Britishness and Englishness; 3 When was England?; Understanding the United Kingdom in time
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Engla Land': the meaning of England and the Englishin Anglo-Saxon timesThe English nation from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries; 'Englishing the nation'?; 4 The first English Empire; The English and others; Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Britons; Celts and English; Conquest and colonization:Wales; Conquest and colonization: Ireland; Anglicization by stealth: the Scottish case; 5 The English nation: parent of nationalism?; A sixteenth-century nationalism?; England: the first nation?; The Protestant nation; Protestantism and nationalism; Literary Englishness
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 The making of British identityOne nation divided; Towards Great Britain; Britons:Welsh and Irish; North Britons; Britishness and Englishness; Culture and religion: the Protestant nation; Society, economy and empire; A British nation?; 7 The moment of Englishness; English nationalism: the dog that did not bark?; England and the 'British Empire in Europe'; Empire and English identity; The need for nationhood; The discovery of Englishness; Englishness as history, language and literature; 8 The English and the British today; Forever England; The persistence of Britishness
    Description / Table of Contents: The break-up of Britain?Englishness embattled; English nationalism; England, Britain and Europe; Notes; List of references; Index
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    Poor in England 1700–1850 : An Economy of Makeshifts (2003)
    Manchester : Manchester University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781847790668
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    DDC: 305.569094209033
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1700-1850 ; Armut ; England
    Abstract: This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing s.
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    Fashioning Adultery : Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740 (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780511148750
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
    Series Statement: Past and Present Publications
    DDC: 306.7094209032
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1660-1740 ; Geschlecht ; Gesellschaftsleben ; Sexualität ; England
    Abstract: A major 2002 survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England.
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    Fashioning adultery : gender, sex and civility in England, 1660-1740 (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0521792444
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 236 S , 24 cm
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Gordon-Kelter, Janice [Rezension von: Turner, David M., Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex, and Civility in England, 1660-1740] 2004
    Series Statement: Past and present publications
    DDC: 306.73/6/0942
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    Keywords: Adultery History ; England Social life and customs 17th century ; England Social life and customs 18th century ; Englisch ; Ehebruch ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1660-1740 ; England ; Ehebruch ; Geschichte 1660-1740
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    Literature and Utopian politics in seventeenth-century England (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511019017 , 9780521009157 , 0521810825 , 9780521810821 , 0521009154 , 9780511019012 , 0511120133 , 9780511120138
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 256 p , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2003 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in McQuade, Paula [Rezension von: Appelbaum, Robert, Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England] 2003
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Literature and Utopian politics in seventeenth-century England
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    Keywords: English literature History and criticism. Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Politics and literature History 17th century. ; Utopias in literature. ; Utopias ; English literature History and criticism ; Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Politics and literature History ; 17th century ; Great Britain ; Utopias Great Britain ; Utopias in literature ; Utopias ; English literature History and criticism Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Politics and literature History 17th century ; Politics and literature History 17th century ; English literature History and criticism Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Utopias in literature ; Utopias ; English literature History and criticism. Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Politics and literature History 17th century. ; Utopias in literature. ; Utopias ; Electronic books ; English literature History and criticism ; Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Bellettrie ; Utopieën ; Utopias in literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; Politics and government ; Politics and literature ; English literature ; Early modern ; Utopias ; Intellectual life ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Online-Publikation ; Utopie ; Literatur ; Politik ; Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714. ; England Intellectual life 17th century. ; Great Britain Politics and government ; 1603-1714 ; England Intellectual life ; 17th century ; Englisch ; England ; Great Britain ; England Intellectual life 17th century ; Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714 ; Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714 ; England Intellectual life 17th century ; Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714. ; England Intellectual life 17th century. ; Great Britain ; Engeland ; England ; Englisch ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Online-Publikation ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Utopie ; Politik ; Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Utopie ; Politik ; Geschichte 1600-1700
    Abstract: Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of social and political ideals. But they also constructed systems in which the assertion of utopian mastery would have no place, and an ideal politics could no longer be imagined. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-251) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
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    Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950 : Gender and Class (2000)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317875574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Women And Men In History
    DDC: 303.60941
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1850-1950 ; Gewalt ; Geschlechtergeschichte ; Klassenkampf ; 20th century ; England ; Konferenzschrift 1999
    Abstract: The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts.   'Getting Hurt' which looks at everyday violence in the home (including a chapter on infanticide).   'Uses and Rejections' two chapters on the use of violence within groups of men and women outside the home (for example, violence within youth gangs, and male violence centred around pubs).   'Going Public' three chapters on how violence was regulated by law and the professional agencies which were set up to deal with it.   'Perceptions and Representations' this final section looks at how violence was written about, using both fiction and non-fiction sources.   Throughout the book the recurring themes of gender, class, continuity and change, public/private, and experience, discourses and representations are highlighted.
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    Writing and Society : Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 (1999)
    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203982587
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (211 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.48809420903
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1450 - 1669 ; Alphabetisierung ; Lektüre ; Buchdruck ; Politik ; England
    Abstract: Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production. This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses: * the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain * structures of patronage and censorship * the fundamental role of the publishing industry * the relation between elite literary and popular cultures * and the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.
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    Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens : Women's Alliances in Early Modern England (1998)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781602562394
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (369 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1450-1700 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Frau ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; Freundschaft ; Female friendship -- England -- History ; Women -- England -- History ; Women -- Social networks -- England -- History ; Women and literature -- England -- History ; Women in literature ; England ; Konferenzschrift 1993
    Abstract: CONTRIBUTORSHARRIETTE ANDREADISBARBARA BOWENELIZABETH A. BROWNKATHLEEN BROWNSUSAN FRYELOWELL GALLAGHERLISA GIMMARGO HENDRICKSJEAN E. HOWARDANN ROSALIND JONESJODI MIKALACHKISIMON MORGAN-RUSSELLHELEN OSTOVICHKAREN ROBERTSONJESSICA TVORDIMARY WACKVALERIE WAYNE.
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    Writing, gender, and state in early modern England : identity formation and the female subject (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511582745
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 247 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture 26
    DDC: 820.9/9287
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1450-1600 ; Frau ; Englisch ; Schriftstellerin ; Soziale Stellung ; Identitätsfindung ; England
    Abstract: The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated sense of identity, to Civil War perceptions of the self as inscribed by the state and inflected according to gender, a site of civil and sexual invigilation and control. Each centres on the work of an early modern woman writer in the act of self-definition and authorization, in relation to external powers such as the Church and the monarchy. Megan Matchinske's study illustrates the evolving relationships between public and private selves and the increasing role of gender in determining different identities for men and women. The conjunction of gender and statehood in Matchinske's analysis represents an original contribution to the study of early modern identity.
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    Literary patronage in England, 1650-1800 (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511519024
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 317 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1650-1800 ; Mäzenatentum ; Literatur ; England
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive study of the system of literary patronage in early modern England and it demonstrates that far from declining by 1750 - as many commentators have suggested - the system persisted, albeit in altered forms, throughout the eighteenth century. Combining the perspectives of literary, social and political history, Dustin Griffin lays out the workings of the patronage system and shows how authors wrote within that system, manipulating it to their advantage or resisting the claims of patrons by advancing counterclaims of their own. Professor Griffin describes the cultural economics of patronage and argues that literary patronage was in effect always 'political'. Chapters on individual authors, including Dryden, Swift, Pope and Johnson, as well as Edward Young, Richard Savage, Mary Leapor and Charlotte Lennox, address the author's role in the system, the rhetoric of dedications and the larger poetics of patronage.
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    Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century : Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry (1995)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400821662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (319 pages)
    DDC: 302.22420422
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1200-1300 ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Mittelenglisch ; Philosophie ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Literatur ; England
    Abstract: This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literacy than previously supposed. In contrast to the view of orality and literacy as opposing forces, the book maintains that the power of language consists in displacement, the capacity of one channel of language to take the place of the other, to make the source disappear into the copy. Appreciating the interplay between oral and written language makes possible for the first time a way of understanding the high literate achievements of this century in relation to momentous developments in social and political life. Part I reasseses the "nominalism" of Ockham and the "realism" of Wyclif through discussions of their major treatises on language and government. Part II argues that the chronicle histories of this century are tied specifically to oral customs, and Part III shows how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's Knight's Tale confront outright the displacement of language and dominion. Informed by recent discussions in critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, the book offers a new synoptic view of fourteenth-century culture. As a critique of the social context of medieval literacy, it speaks directly to postmodern debate about the politics of historicism today.
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    Turned to account : the forms and functions of criminal biography in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England (1987)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511983733
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 347 pages)
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    DDC: 364.3/092/2
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Geschichte 1650-1750 ; Geschichte 1600-1730 ; Geschichte ; Criminals / England / Biography / History and criticism ; English prose literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism ; English prose literature / 18th century / History and criticism ; Criminals / England / History / 17th century ; Criminals / England / History / 18th century ; Kriminalsoziologie ; Kriminalität ; Großbritannien ; England ; Biografie ; England ; Kriminalität ; Geschichte 1600-1730 ; Großbritannien ; Kriminalsoziologie ; Geschichte 1650-1750 ; Kriminalität ; England ; Geschichte 1650-1750
    Abstract: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread fear of criminal assault motivated the publication of hundreds of pamphlets tracing the lives and misdeeds of London's most notorious rogues. Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. The author has not produced a criminal history, but an intriguing distillation of some 2,000 separate narratives describing the lives, deeds, and dying words of thieves, murderers, and various scoundrels. Lincoln Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote, and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character. He completes his treatment by showing how the pamphlets served to delineate the lines of socially acceptable behaviour. Faller has chosen his examples with skill and economy to produce a comprehensive and interesting work
    Description / Table of Contents: Turning Criminals to Account: Three Case Histories and Two Myths of Crime. 1. The highwayman: power, grace, and money at command ; 2. Familiar murder: sin, death, damnation, repentance, God's grace, and salvation -- Enucleating the Truth: The Criminal as Sinner Turned Saint. 3. In the absence of adequate causes: efforts at an etiology of crime ; 4. Heaven seized by sincerity and zeal: justifying God, vindicating man ; 5. Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond -- Palliating His Crimes: The Thief as Various Rogues. 6. Smiles, serious thoughts, and things beyond imagining: a provisional typology of thieves in action ; 7. Barbarous levities: fear, guilt, and the value of confusion ; Everyone left to his own reflections: the oddity of the highwayman as hero and social critic
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    Scottish literacy and the Scottish identity : illiteracy and society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600-1800 (1985)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511522598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 325 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 4
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    DDC: 302.2/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Geschichte ; Literacy / Scotland / History / 17th century ; Literacy / Scotland / History / 18th century ; Literacy / Cross-cultural studies ; National characteristics, Scottish ; Comparative education ; Literacy / England, Northern / History ; Bildung ; Alphabetisierung ; Geschichte ; Schottland ; England ; Großbritannien ; Schottland ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; England Nord ; Alphabetisierung ; Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Schottland ; Bildung ; Geschichte ; Großbritannien ; Alphabetisierung ; Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Schottland ; Alphabetisierung ; Geschichte 1600-1800
    Abstract: Scottish education and literacy have achieved a legendary status. A campaign promoted by church and state between 1560 and 1696 is said to have produced the most literate population in the early modern world. This book sets out to test this belief by comparing the ability to read and write in Scotland with northern England in particular and with Europe and North America in general. It combines extensive statistical analysis with qualitative and theoretical discussion to produce an important argument about the significance of literacy and education for the individual and society of relevance not just to the Scottish experience but to a far broader social and geographical area
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    Scottish literacy and the Scottish identity : illiteracy and society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600-1800 (1985)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511522598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 325 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 4
    DDC: 302.2/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alphabetisierung ; Bildung ; Schottland ; Großbritannien ; England
    Abstract: Scottish education and literacy have achieved a legendary status. A campaign promoted by church and state between 1560 and 1696 is said to have produced the most literate population in the early modern world. This book sets out to test this belief by comparing the ability to read and write in Scotland with northern England in particular and with Europe and North America in general. It combines extensive statistical analysis with qualitative and theoretical discussion to produce an important argument about the significance of literacy and education for the individual and society of relevance not just to the Scottish experience but to a far broader social and geographical area.
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    Literacy and the social order : reading and writing in Tudor and Stuart England (1980)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511560484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 246 pages)
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Analphabetismus ; Bildungsniveau ; Kultur ; Literatursoziologie ; England ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: In this exploration of the social context of reading and writing in pre-industrial England, David Cressy tackles important questions about the limits of participation in the mainstream of early modern society. To what extent could people at different social levels share in political, religious, literary and cultural life; how vital was the ability to read and write; and how widely distributed were these skills? Using a combination of humanist and social-scientific methods, Dr Cressy provides a detailed reconstruction of the profile of literacy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, looking forward to the eighteenth century and also making comparisons with other European societies.
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