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3 giorni fa · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
1 giorno fa · Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity , imagination , and appreciation of nature in society and culture during the Age of ...
5 giorni fa · Starting during the 18th century, the United Kingdom was the first country in the world to industrialize. 1808: Beethoven composes Fifth Symphony; 1813: Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice; 1818: Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 1819: John Keats writes his six of his best-known odes.
3 giorni fa · Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521774277; 318pp.; Price: £17.99. The history of the Enlightenment can sometimes appear as a male narrative, dominated by canonical male writers, with women appearing only as subjects denied an equality of rationality and ...
5 giorni fa · Craig Muldrew attends to larger-scale economic factors behind the decline in litigation in the 18th century that was observed by Brooks and other legal historians. Muldrew notes that the real expansion and downturn in common-law suits before and after the late 17th century was in actions of debt, but that the numbers of active attorneys in the country increased nonetheless.
5 giorni fa · William Boyce was one of the foremost English composers of church music, known also for his symphonies and stage music, and as an organist and musical editor. Boyce was a chorister and later a student of the organ at St. Paul’s Cathedral. His career as a composer was closely related to his many.
5 giorni fa · Gothic Fiction from the 18th Century to the Romantics. English Gothic Fiction: 1764-1832 ; American Gothic Fiction: 1764-1832 ; Wieland, 1798; Ormond, 1799; Edgar Huntly, 1799; Arthur Mervyn, 1799 & Jane Talbot, 1801; Julia, and the Illuminated Baron, 1800 & Dorval; or, The Speculator, 1801
