Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Culture and Society in Britain, 1660-1800

Culture and Society in Britain, 1660-1800

Jeremy Gregory
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
From the culture of sex to Titus Oates and "sodomy", from Jacobitism to the poetry of Empire, this text offers a wide-ranging study of an important period of British cultural history. The collection is interdisciplinary and engages with the leading historical and cultural themes of the period.

Contents:
The new eighteenth-century social history / Roy Porter --
The power of print : word and image in eighteenth-century England / John Feather --
Demography and the culture of sex in the long eighteenth century / Tim Hitchcock --
Titus Oates and 'sodomy' / Paul Hammond --
Christianity and culture : religion, the arts and the sciences in England, 1660-1800 / Jeremy Gregory --
The culture of Jacobitism / Murray Pittock --
Protestantism and the poetry of empire, 1660-1800 / Karen O'Brien --
The de-formed face of democracy : class, comedy and character in eighteenth-century British portraiture / Shearer West
Language
English
Pages
199
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Release
March 06, 1997
ISBN
0719049474
ISBN 13
9780719049477

Culture and Society in Britain, 1660-1800

Jeremy Gregory
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
From the culture of sex to Titus Oates and "sodomy", from Jacobitism to the poetry of Empire, this text offers a wide-ranging study of an important period of British cultural history. The collection is interdisciplinary and engages with the leading historical and cultural themes of the period.

Contents:
The new eighteenth-century social history / Roy Porter --
The power of print : word and image in eighteenth-century England / John Feather --
Demography and the culture of sex in the long eighteenth century / Tim Hitchcock --
Titus Oates and 'sodomy' / Paul Hammond --
Christianity and culture : religion, the arts and the sciences in England, 1660-1800 / Jeremy Gregory --
The culture of Jacobitism / Murray Pittock --
Protestantism and the poetry of empire, 1660-1800 / Karen O'Brien --
The de-formed face of democracy : class, comedy and character in eighteenth-century British portraiture / Shearer West
Language
English
Pages
199
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Release
March 06, 1997
ISBN
0719049474
ISBN 13
9780719049477

More books from Jeremy Gregory

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader