Drawing on a great variety of sources, this book studies the ideological foundations of monarchy as an institution in eighteenth-century Sweden. Its wide scope and inventive method are of interest to anyone interested in early-modern European politics. -- .
The interplay between ill health and artistic creativity is demonstrated in fascinating surveys of afflicted artists, composers, and authors and their works. -- .
An indispensable book presenting for the first time in English an unparalleled overview of the phonetics and phonology of speech melody and rhythm by one of the foremost prosody experts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. -- .