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  • af David Oakleaf
    636,95 - 1.825,95 kr.

  • af Nicholas Hudson
    642,95 - 1.925,95 kr.

    Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of revolutionary transition.

  • af Claire Grogan
    1.153,95 kr.

  • af Charles A. Knight
    642,95 - 1.925,95 kr.

    Richard Steele is famous as an early writer of sentimental drama and as half of the writing team, Addison and Steele. He is notable both for the indirect propaganda he developed with Addison and for the open partisanship of his own periodicals. He wrote extensively about responsible economics but was famously irresponsible in his own affairs.

  • af W. A. Speck
    639,95 - 1.834,95 kr.

    Speck's biography examines Paine's work afresh, in light of new thinking about the role of religion in the formation of his political ideology, and also places Paine within the recently-developed context of 'Atlantic History'.

  • af W. R. Owens & P. N. Furbank
    636,95 - 1.732,95 kr.

  • af Rachel Carnell
    463,95 - 1.177,95 kr.

    A Tory pamphleteer, playwright and satirical historian, Delarivier Manley was regarded by her contemporaries Jonathan Swift and Robert Harley as a key member of the Tory propaganda team. This biography offers details about her life, including evidence about three illegitimate children by John Tilly, Governor of Fleet Prison.

  • af Michael Brown
    634,95 - 1.935,95 kr.

    John Toland was notorious. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, situating his writings within the controversies that sparked and shaped them.

  • af J. A. Downie
    639,95 - 1.833,95 kr.

  • af Kathryn R. King
    698,95 - 1.834,95 kr.

    While under arrest in 1750 on suspicion of producing a seditious pamphlet Eliza Haywood insisted she 'never wrote any thing in a political way'. This study of the life and works, the first full-length biography of Haywood in nearly a century, takes the measure of her duplicity.

  • af Christopher Fauske
    638,95 - 1.831,95 kr.

    William King (1650-1729) was perhaps the dominant Irish intellect of the period from 1688 until his death in 1729. An Anglican (Church of Ireland) by conversion, King was a strident critic of John Toland and the clerical superior of Jonathan Swift.

  • af Pat Rogers
    696,95 - 1.924,95 kr.

    This is the first study to assess the entire career of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in relation to the political issues of his time.

  • af Christopher D Johnson
    557,95 - 1.475,95 kr.