Literary responses to animal experimentation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain.

Interrelationships between Language and Literature from Old English to the Modern Period

Literature is the aesthetic manifestation of language. It is ‘as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise.’ This paper explores the interrelationships between language and literature from 600 AD to the present day.  The grammar of present-day English is closely related to that of Old English with the same tense formation and word orders. The verse unit is a single line and its org...

Book Review: "Loving Literature. A Cultural History"

It is widely acknowledged that emotion is deeply embedded in literary criticism. Even when we aspire to scientific analysis and objectivity, we assume that we share a love of literature. Loving Literature is a deep and fascinating exploration of this important assumption. Literary critics and professors of literature are expected not only to know but also to love their work. In the case of prof...

What did ‘Patriotism’ mean in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

„Patriotism‟ and the term „Patriot‟ refer to a new awareness of Irishness that emerged toward the end of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century. The birth of Patriotism was as a result of several contributory factors following the Jacobite wars at the end of the seventeenth century. Ireland‟s constitutional status as a separate kingdom had been supported by opponents of T...

Leiden University in the seventeenth century. An exchange of learning

Th. H. LUNSINGH SCHEURLEER and G. H. M. POSTHUMUS MEYJES (editors), Leiden University in the seventeenth century. An exchange of learning, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975, fo, pp. viii, 496, illus., DFI. 175. In the history of medicine we judge the University of Leiden to be the most outstanding centre for medical education during the early decades of the eighteenth century. It is usually forgotten, ...

The performance of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century microscopes.