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Knowing books the consciousness of mediation in eighteenth-century Britain / by Lupton, Christina

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Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy. : Authoritative texts of The country wife, The man of mode, The way of the world, The conscious lovers, The school for scandal; backgrounds, criticism. by McMillin, Scott

Herder on nationality, humanity, and history by Barnard, F. M. (Frederick M.)

Table of Contents: “…The Hebraic roots of Herder's nationalism -- Cultural nationalism and political romanticism -- Nationality and humanity : Heine and Herder -- Humanism and titanism : Masaryk and Herder -- Humanity and history : causation and continuity -- The dynamics of culture and "globalization" -- Historical and political consciousness : Herder and Rousseau.…”
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Novel beginnings experiments in eighteenth-century English fiction / by Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer

Table of Contents: “…The excitement of beginnings -- Novels of adventure -- The novel of development -- Novels of consciousness -- The novel of sentiment -- The novel of manners -- Gothic fiction -- The political novel -- Tristram Shandy and the development of the novel.…”
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The gothic novel in Ireland : c. 1760–1829 / by Morin, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Gothic geographies : the cartographic consciousness of Irish gothic fiction -- 4. Gothic materialities : Regina Maria Roche, the Minerva Press, and the bibliographic spread of Irish gothic fiction.…”
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Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece / by Kitromilides, Paschalis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the American edition -- Prologue : the political meaning of the Enlightenment -- The long road to Enlightenment -- The formation of modern Greek historical consciousness -- The geography of civilization : from adulation to revolution -- Enlightened absolutism as a path to change -- Ancients and moderns : cultural criticism and the origins of republicanism -- The revolution in France: the glow and the shadow -- The Enlightenment's political alternative -- The Enlightenment as social criticism -- The republican synthesis : a matrix for nationalism -- The fate of the enlightenment -- Epilogue : the conditions of liberal politics.…”
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Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England / by Zunshine, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers -- Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards" -- Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa -- Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy -- Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison -- The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina -- Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma -- Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.…”
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Unfelt : The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment / by Noggle, James

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : unfelt affect -- The insensible parts of Locke's essay -- David Hartley's ghost matter -- Vivacity and insensible association : Condillac and Hume -- Sentiment and secret consciousness : Haywood and Smith -- Unfeeling before sensibility -- External and invisible -- Insensible against involuntary in Burney -- Austen as coda -- The force of the thing : unfelt moeurs in French historiography -- The insensible revolution and Scottish historiography -- Gibbon in history -- The embrace of unfeeling -- Mandeville and the other happiness -- Feeling untaxed -- The money flow -- Invisible versus insensible -- Epilogue : insensible emergence of ideology.…”
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The Cambridge introduction to eighteenth-century poetry by Sitter, John E.

Table of Contents: “…Blank verse and stanzaic poetry; Part II. Poetic Consciousness: 6. Satiric poetry; 7. Pope as metapoet; 8. …”
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Thomas Jefferson, the classical world, and early America

Table of Contents: “…Cole -- Aristotle and King Alfred in America / Peter Thompson -- Jefferson's classical silence, 1774-1776 : historical consciousness and Roman history in the revolutionary South / Eran Shalev -- Cicero and the classical republican legacy in America / Paul A. …”
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Inventing falsehood, making truth : Vico and Neapolitan painting / by Bull, Malcolm

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Between the queen and the cabby Olympe de Gouges's Rights of woman / by Cole, John R. (John Richard), 1941-

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