The artist William Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific in 1772-5. His extraordinarily vivid images, read against the fascinating journals of Cook and his companions, reveal as much about European cultures and historiography as about the peoples they visited. In this lively and original book, Harriet Guest ...
During the second half of the 18th century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. This work explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism permitted educated women to imagine themselves as political subjects.
Christopher Smart has usually been represented as a poet whose madness or mysticism allowed him to be treated as an eccentric exception, a colourful visionary of only peripheral importance to our understanding of 18th century literature. This study offers a reappraisal of Smart's religious poetry in the context of what are now often seen as ...
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