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The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
The first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), including extensive biographical and contextual material.
Burke, Paine, and the Rights of Man
At the present day, when there is renewed interest in the concept of human rights and in the application of this concept to the problems of government,! it may be instructive to review an eighteenth-century dispute which was concerned precisely with these themes. Nor should the investigation be any less interesting because the disputants were Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine: both these men have also been the object of renewed attention and study in recent years. Critical work on the biography and bibliography of Paine is being done by Professor Aldridge and Col. Richard Gimbel respectively;2 while Burke is being well looked after, not only by the able team of experts who, under the leadership ...
Visions of Britain, 1730-1830
This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic pressure, threatening to dismantle the national vision at the moment of its construction.
English Biography in the Eighteenth Century
The growth and maturity of life-writing, especially in the works of Johnson and Boswell, with an incidental picture of the times.
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