The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century

file:///Users/cevans/Desktop/The%20Industrial%20Revolution%20of%20the%20Eighteenth%20Century.html[2/11/12 10:42:46 AM] The most far-reaching, influential transformation of human culture since the advent of agriculture eight or ten thousand years ago, was the industrial revolution of eighteenth century Europe. The consequences of this revolution would change irrevocably human labor, consumption,...

The Medical World of the Eighteenth Century

THE MEDICAL WORLD OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By Lester S. King. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1958. 346 pp. $5.75. This book by Dr. King is a collection of essays which is concerned with the complexities and variables which influenced the practice of medicine in the eighteenth century, and the efforts of this discipline to progress as an art and a science. The rise of modern patholo...