Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin Horror

Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin HorrorFour Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.

This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter

This book underscores the centrality of refugees to the workings of current dynamics of social and cultural membership in the welfare state

This trans-disciplinary book investigates the forty-year war by the American business class to restore its power and profits

this interdisciplinary volume applies practice-based research to a broad range of topics

With so many great figures shaping its history

Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age is the first metrical and rhymed translation of nearly all the lyrics by Evgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844)

war and violence

Written from a theoretical perspective

linguistic

and evaluates its role as an imperial power – as both a powerful imperial envoy and a significant presence in the Pacific region

organised and celebrated largely in London

Trade and Development’ reprints Nukse’s most important works