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OverviewThis collection of essays brings together eighteenth-century scholars from a variety of disciplines, to discuss conversation in the eighteenth century as concept and practice. At the heart of the volume is a simple question: are eighteenth-century conceptualisations of the role and purpose of conversation still relevant or useful to scholars and thinkers today? This volume contains essays by leading scholars of the period as well as early career researchers, and answers a need for a broad-ranging discussion of the concept of conversation in the arts, social sciences and humanities. The long eighteenth century is a particularly fruitful starting point for work on this topic, since ideas about conversation permeated all types of writing in this period, from the early forerunners of scientific textbooks to philosophical dialogues. The collection covers an exceptionally wide range of long-eighteenth-century authors, artists, lawmakers, texts and works of art, and, although the focus of the volume is largely on eighteenth-century Britain, the volume takes note of the rich relationships between continental European thought and British intellectual life in the period, and of the influence of British ideas in the newly independent American republic. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Katie Halsey , Jane SlinnPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Weight: 0.998kg ISBN: 9781847184979ISBN 10: 1847184979 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 16 May 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'The editors offer a collection of ideas and points of view, and every reader will find something provocative'Pat Michaelson- University of Dallas Texas, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22, no.4 Summer 2010 'The editors offer a collection of ideas and points of view, and every reader will find something provocative' Pat Michaelson- University of Dallas Texas, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22, no.4 Summer 2010 Author InformationKatie Halsey is an AHRC postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. She works on the Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945, and was previously a Teaching Fellow in Romantic Literature at St Andrews University. Recent publications include 'Critics as a Race are Donkeys': Margaret Oliphant, Critic or Common Reader? , Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 2 (2007), 42-69; The Blush of Modesty or the Blush of Shame? Reading Jane Austen's Blushes , Forum for Modern Language Studies, 42.3 (July 2006): 226-238; Spectral Texts in Mansfield Park , in British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: authorship, history, politics, ed. Cora Kaplan and Jennie Batchelor (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 48-61. Her monograph on Jane Austen and her readers will be published in 2008.Jane Slinn studied for a Ph.D. at King's College, Cambridge on the place of emotion on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's aesthetics. She has written articles on Romantic aesthetics and sympathy and the aesthetic writings of Adam Smith and David Hume. With Katie Halsey, she organised the conference from which this collection of essays is drawn. She is now training to be a barrister. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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