Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates: The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century

Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated eighteenth-century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate.

Approaches of Infinity - The Sublime and the social - Studies in Eighteenth Century Writings

A university booklet for the students of English literature. Contains nine essays devoted to the notion of sublime in the theory of poststructuralism and postmodernism. The ideas are compared to those of the Enlightenment Age. See the table of content for more details.

Dr. Johnson's Women

"Dr. Johnson's Women represents the best kind of popula history being produced at the moment: scholarly, fluent and supremely human." --Kathryn Hughes, Daily Telegraph
"Dr. Clarke understands the eighteenth century -- she has a nice sense of character. Her book is both shrewd and scholarly." --Adam Sisman, Evening Standard

English 1 сентября (23-24) 1993

"Английский язык".
Еженедельное приложение к газете "Первое сентября"

 

ЛОНДОН
-- London's beginnings
--Anglo-Saxon London
--Medieval London
--Tudor and Elizabethan London
--Seventeenth centwy London
--Eighteenth century London
--Nineteenth centwy London
--Twentieth century London
--The growth of London В Westminster Abbey
--The Houses of Parliament

Romeo and Juliet - (The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated Edition)

Professor Evans helps the reader to visualise the stage action of Romeo and Juliet, a vital element in the play's significance and useful to students approaching it for the first time. The history of the play in the theatre is accompanied by illustrations of notable productions from the eighteenth century onwards. A lucid commentary alerts the reader to the difficulties of language, thought and staging.