From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, and philosophers brooded about... Læs mere
This book explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the long eighteenth century meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of time-telling objects.
Marcus Tomalin probes the relationships between language and literature during the Romantic period by exploring how Tobias Smollett, Maria Edgeworth,... Læs mere
This book explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the long eighteenth century meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of time-telling objects.