Author: Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The Nonsense of Common-Sense
The Nonsense of Common-Sense 1737-1738
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The Nonsense of Common-Sense, 1737-1738 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260273260
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Excerpt from The Nonsense of Common-Sense, 1737-1738 I am obliged to the Earl of Harrowby and to the Viscount Sandon for their graciousness in allowing me to consult the Wort ley Papers, of which I am printing, With their permission, the portions relating to the N onsense of common-sense. The Yale University Library and the Bodleian Library have generously allowed me to reprint their copies of this rare periodical. In addition, the British Museum, Columbia University, the New York Public Library, and the Newberry Library have been cour teous and helpful. Professors John Webster Spargo, Ray W. Frantz, T. M. Cranfill, and Miss Miriam Locke have given me the benefit of their painstaking advice. My personal obligation to several other scholars I have indicated in footnotes. And, finally, I am deeply indebted to Professor George Sherburn of Harvard University for his sympathetic encouragement and um failing assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Nonsense of Common Sense
Author: Mary Wortley MontaguePublisher:
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NONSENSE OF COMMON-SENSE, 1737-1738
Author: MARY WORTLEY. MONTAGUPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033980217
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Nonsense of Common-sense, 1737-1738
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Common Sense
Author: Sophia RosenfeldPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.
Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture
Author: Christoph HenkePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110343401
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.
The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain
Author: Thomas McGearyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110700988X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Thomas McGeary's book explores the relationship between Italian opera and British partisan politics in the era of George Frideric Handel.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.