Shaping the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Trial: A View from the Ryder Sources

The Historical Foundations of the Law of Evidence: A View from the Ryder Sources

Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth century in England was an age equal to the age of Augustus Caesar, when the Roman society had reached the peak of its glory. The name Augustan Age was chosen by writers who saw in Pope, Addison, Swift, Johnson and Burke the modern parallels to Horace, Virgil and Cicero, and all that brilliant company who made Roman literature famous in the day of Augustus. Past ages of England were l...

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

This fine volume of essays on the nobility in the later eighteenth century is a most welcome addition to the existing literature. It comprises eleven essays by American historians whose research engages with the concept of nobility. The collection issues from a conference in 2004 and reflects the cultural turn in historiography that has such sway, particularly in America. There is a stimulating...

Evolution: A View from the 21st Century

Evolution: A View from the 21st Century, written by an eminent microbiologist–bacterial molecular geneticist, is an ambitious book. It has something novel and highly interesting to say about evolution and it deserves to be widely read. Nevertheless, I have found doing this review a difficult exercise. In the interest of ''full disclosure,'' I should say that the author, Jim Shapiro, is a friend...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...