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This collection opens a panorama of essays celebrating diverse ways to participate in the British--and international--Enlightenment. Investigating major authors, unusual persons, commentators on other nations, scholars, and even early environmentalists, this volume explores the many amenable places where the confident culture of this period emerged.

This book explores the Erie Railway's contributions to nineteenth-century visual culture by promoting scenic thinking in which closely viewed scenes and deep prospects became the basis for engaging landscapes and their representations. Erie guides became commentary on landscape, with images and texts as annotations on the production of culture.

Not for Filth Lucre's Sake tells the story of Richard Saltar -- an early settler of Freehold, New Jersey, and an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln -- who helped overthrow the oppressive proprietary government of colonial New Jersey. The book is the first in-depth study of the motivations of the antiproprietary movement.

This study discloses the intellectual context and the personal pretext of Thomas Paine's assault on religion in The Age of Reason. Illustrated.

This book provides the first comprehensive daily record of surviving evidence relating to nearly seven hundred theatrical performances that took place in Belfast, Ireland from the earliest recorded staging of a play there in 1736, through the year 1800. At the heart of the work is the daily calendar of performances, each entry of which includes date of performances, cast lists and roles enacted, scenery, costume, specialty acts, dances, songs,...

This book examines the sources of Wesley's ideas about marriage and shows how these beliefs found expression in his revision of the Anglican wedding service. It also describes the differences between a typical eighteenth-century wedding and a modern church wedding. Finally, it shows how his relationships with Sophia Hopkey and Grace Murray, as well as his unhappy marriage, were affected by his beliefs about matrimony.

This collection of essays examines select historical questions about the interrelationship between the sciences and Harvard University as an organizational, intellectual, and social context for science in the United States. The essays span the period from the seventeenth century to World War II.

Three related themes weave through the experience of the American YMCA missionaries and Japanese Christians between 1890-1930: the connection between national identity and Christianity, resulting conflicts between these Christians, and an alternating sense of crisis and progress. In the 1920s, tensions between Americans and Japanese leaders led the American YMCA missionary movement to reevaluate its purpose and forced it away from nationalism.

This volume offers eleven essays on colonial British North America and the American Revolution. Part I of the collection includes essays on aspects of the Revolution that reflect Gipson's interests, while the essays in Part II deal with social history.

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A Quaker Goes to Spain is a multifaceted historical narrative. It recounts in detail a unique but virtually forgotten U.S. diplomatic initiative during The War of 1812, interwoven with a far more personal account of the emotional hardship, and the cultural and philosophical growth, experienced by the unusual man sent to carry out the mission.

This work argues that Hunt's poetry, which often suffers from invidious comparisons, ought to be regarded as a manifestation of rococo art, using this category to justify its lightness and decorativeness.

Clarence Miller's Humanism and Style: Essays on Erasmus and Thomas More provides an illuminating and circumstantial engagement with the works of two great humanists. Miller's essays cover a complex terrain that includes the rhetorical functions of stylistic shifts, the deployment of proverbial wisdom, engagement with ancient texts in an early modern setting, and the challenges of maintaining a stance of faith in a world always muddied in its h...

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18, 000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18, 000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18, 000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18, 000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18, 000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to examine the absurdity and terror posed for the individual by what his contemporary Max Weber termed "the iron cage" of society. In this book, Mark E. Blum examines Kafka's three novels, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, in their exploration of how community is formed or eroded in the interpersonal relations of its protagonists. Critical literature has recognized Kafka's ability...

Robert J. Houle examines the history of faith among colonial Zulu Christians (known as amaKholwa, ) in what would become South Africa, arguing that Africans successfully naturalized Christianity. Houle believes that before the religion could take hold, several aspects of Christianity needed to be translated to fill critical gaps between existing African beliefs and Chritian tradition. This dual identity was difficult to reconcile through much ...