wyszukanych pozycji: 18
Swift, Pope and the Doctors: Medicine and Writing in the Early Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9783770566891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book explores the impacts, particularly on their writing, of the serious illnesses of Swift and Pope, alongside their respective understandings of health issues and within their period context. Both Swift and Pope spent most of their lives suffering from serious illness, Ménière’s Disease (Swift) and Pott’s Disease (Pope). This was at a time when medical understanding of these conditions was minimal. This book examines the effects of illness on each writer’s relations with doctors, treatment, and medicine more widely, and how far and in what ways their own experiences affected...
This book explores the impacts, particularly on their writing, of the serious illnesses of Swift and Pope, alongside their respective understandings o...
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425,63 zł |
Boswell's Creative Gloom: A Study of Imagery and Melancholy in the Writings of James Boswell
ISBN: 9781349056309 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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173,06 zł |
Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety
ISBN: 9781137487629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.
This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore m...
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192,30 zł |
The Madhouse of Language
ISBN: 9780415031905 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records and texts by mad writers. It presents a highly original account of the linguistic relations between madness and sanity, of the appropriation by sane writers of the forms of English, and of attempts by mad patients to gain access to the expressive potential of language.
Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Lang...
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700,25 zł |
Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable
ISBN: 9781137597175 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating them to current social fashions and trends. These essays also look at ways in which diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural, moral, religious and even political meaning. Works of literature are used as... This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three condition... |
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423,10 zł |
Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable
ISBN: 9781349955688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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423,10 zł |
The Madhouse of Language: Writing and Reading Madness in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780415755184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records and texts by mad writers. It presents a highly original account of the linguistic relations between madness and sanity, of the appropriation by sane writers of the forms of English, and of attempts by mad patients to gain access to the expressive potential of language.
Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language...
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259,30 zł |
Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and Pope
ISBN: 9781349181667 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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178,44 zł |
Joseph Conrad: Selected Literary Criticism and the Shadow-Line
ISBN: 9780416393507 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brings together selected critical writings of Conrad, and one of his best short stories, The Shadow Line. The criticism spans the whole of his literary career.
Brings together selected critical writings of Conrad, and one of his best short stories, The Shadow Line. The criticism spans the whole of his literar...
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129,62 zł |
Anglo-Ottoman Encounters in the Age of Revolution: The Collected Essays of Allan Cunningham, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781138963559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume traces the effects of involvement in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on the Ottoman Empire. The book analyzes Anglo-Ottoman relations in a series of studies of five British ambassadors at Constantinople and one Foreign Secretary, George Canning.
This volume traces the effects of involvement in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on the Ottoman Empire. The book analyzes Anglo-Ottoman relation...
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155,56 zł |
The Raven with Literary and Historical Commentary (Heathen Edition)
ISBN: 9781963228410 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,60 zł |
The Raven with Literary and Historical Commentary
ISBN: 9781948316415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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48,56 zł |
Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 Vol 3
ISBN: 9781138752481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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197,05 zł |
Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800
ISBN: 9781848930865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 1264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: 'melancholy' carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: 'melancholy' car...
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2723,18 zł |
Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 Vol 4
ISBN: 9781138752498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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197,05 zł |
Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 Vol 2
ISBN: 9781138752474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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197,05 zł |
Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 Vol 1
ISBN: 9781138752467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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197,05 zł |
Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781530412983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,68 zł |