In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to fulfil a personal and artistic quest and to find relief from his
Royal Tours 1786-2010 is a penetrating look at the tours of eleven royalties who were or would be monarchs, viceroys, and commanders-in-chief of Canada. Leaving California in 1983 to tour British Colu
After examining in volume 1 and 2 the hardware artillery implemented by Gunners from the end of the Old Regime to First Empire, this third volume discusses some topics of specialists uniformology, and
Halsey (18th-century literature, U. of Stirling, Scotland) explores what she characterizes as the complex and unequal relationship between texts and readers. She begins by looking at Austen's (1775-18
"All the world is mad about balloons" observers recorded during the craze in Britain that lasted from 1783 to 1786. Excitement about the new invention spread rapidly, inspiring hopes, visions, fashion
This volume is the first of six that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from 17 July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, un
In this study, Cosslett investigates how 19th-century debates about humans, animals, and evolutionary theory were reflected in British children's literature of the time. Particular attention is paid t
"This is the story of British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya from 1786 to 1920, when British vision, zeal and drive developed Penang, then Singapore and, finally, the peninsular Malay States. In t
This is the sixth volume of Wesley's Journal to appear in the critical edition of The Works of John Wesley. Covering the decade from 1776 to the end of 1786, it contains three full "Extracts" of Wesle
