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  1. The Cambridge History of the British Essay

    From ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolonial resistance, from political pamphlets to the rise of literary professionalism, from gastronomy to ecocriticism, The Cambridge History of the British Essay offers the first authoritative single-volume history of the form's development within the ...

  2. The Cambridge History of the British Essay

    Amazon.com: The Cambridge History of the British Essay: 9781316516508: Gigante, Denise, Childs, Jason: Books

  3. PDF THE BRITISH ESSAY

    The Cambridge History of the British Essay and The Cambridge History of the American Essay P C , Professor in English, Trinity College Dublin J D , Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University M E, Associate Professor of English, University of Oxford M P E , Professor of Literature, Technology, and Publishing, Birkbeck,

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    Cambridge University Press & Assessment 978-1-316-51650-8 — The Cambridge History of the British Essay Denise Gigante , Jason Childs Table of Contents

  6. The Cambridge History of the British Essay|Hardcover

    From ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolonial resistance, from political pamphlets to the rise of literary professionalism, from gastronomy to ecocriticism, The Cambridge History of the...

  7. The Great Age of the English Essay

    She is currently completing work on The Cambridge History of the British Essay, a monumental history the development of the essay genre by a global network of authors that includes her own chapter, "On Books: The Bibliographical Essay" She is also working to complete The Mental Traveller: William Blake, a study of Blake's illuminated ...

  8. The Cambridge History of the British Essay

    From ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolonial resistance, from political pamphlets to the rise of literary professionalism, from gastronomy to ecocriticism, The Cambridge History of the British Essay offers the first authoritative single-volume history of the form's development within the ...

  9. Denise Gigante

    Denise Gigante teaches British Romantic literature, and poetry over a longer tradition. Her interests include poetic form and aesthetics, bibliomania and literary antiquarianism, gastronomy, the history and form of the essay, material print culture, and the mixed-media work of William Blake. She is currently completing work on The Cambridge ...

  10. Understanding the British Empire Ronald Hyam. Cambridge: Cambridge

    The essays demonstrate a command of the history of British imperialism in all its geographical, chronological and social complexity that few can match, ... The essays on Cambridge and imperial history in the last section may fit less well with the overall brief of the volume, but enable Hyam to pay homage to his own institution and its ...

  11. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

    An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing ...

  12. The Cambridge History of the British Empire

    The Cambridge History of the British Empire was a major work of historical scholarship published in eight volumes between 1929 and 1961 by Cambridge University Press. Volume seven was divided into two parts. The general editors were John Holland Rose, A. P. Newton and Ernest Alfred Benians. The original set of eight volumes was issued between ...

  13. British Literature Through History

    134556. Anonymous. LibreTexts. British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages relate to the early ...

  14. The Cambridge History of the British Empire. General

    This volume of the Cambridge History of the British Empire, the second in a series of eight but the next to the last to be published, ... It contains sixteen essays on various topics in Canadian history, all composed by different authors belonging to the above-mentioned group; and these essays, except the first, are arranged according to ...

  15. The Cambridge History of the British Essay Hardcover

    From ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolonial resistance, from political pamphlets to the rise of literary professionalism, from gastronomy to ecocriticism, The Cambridge History of the British Essay offers the first authoritative single-volume history of the form's development within the ...

  16. Two Treatises of Government

    Two Treatises of Government (full title: Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown.The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke.

  17. History of the United Kingdom

    The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state of Great Britain ...

  18. Fellow in Focus with John Morrill discusses Cromwell's legacy as most

    Professor John Morrill is currently a visiting research fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub in association with the School of Histories and Humanities.Since 1997 he has been a Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge, a university he joined in 1975, after training and teaching in Oxford and Stirling.

  19. PDF the cambridge history of ENGLISH LITERATURE,1660 1780

    a general commitment to providing an accessible narrative history through a linked sequence of essays by internationally renowned scholars. The History is designed to accommodate the range of ... The Cambridge History of English Literature - ... British Council Prize in 1990 and was selected by Choice as one of the ten Outstanding

  20. Watershed: An Excursion in Four Parts

    Kingsley was president of the Water Board for fourteen years; during his tenure, in 1888, Fresh Pond was ceded to Cambridge by the Commonwealth, the surrounding land included in order to preserve the purity of the water. "The City," Kingsley writes, has taken about 170 acres, and removed all buildings therefrom.

  21. Your Guide to the Cambridge AICE: A Cambridge Program for High School

    The Cambridge AICE uses a grading scale that mirrors the traditional British grading system for A Levels. Each subject is graded individually, and students receive a grade based on their performance in that particular subject. The grades range from A (the highest grade) to E (the minimum passing grade). Here is a breakdown of the grading scale:

  22. History of the rupee

    Silver coin of the Maurya Empire, known as Rūpyarūpa, with symbols of wheel and elephant. 3rd century BC.. The history of the rupee traces back to ancient times in the Indian subcontinent. The mention of rūpya by Pāṇini is seemingly the earliest reference in a text about coins. The term in Indian subcontinent was used for referring to a coin. The word "rupee" is derived from a Sanskrit ...

  23. Medicine Course For Ages 13-15 In Cambridge

    Medicine Programme in Cambridge (Ages 13-15) with Immerse. Our programme caters to 13-15 year old secondary / high school students who are intrigued by the world of medicine and its practical applications. This engaging experience delves into the realms of medical science and healthcare. Cambridge.

  24. The Cambridge History of English Literature

    The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors ...