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In eighteenth-century England, 'variety' became a prized aesthetic in musical culture. Not only was variety - of counterpoint, harmony, melody, and orchestration - expected for good composition, but it also manifested in cultural mediums such as songbook anthologies, which compiled miscellaneous songs and styles in single volumes; pasticcio operas, which were cobbled together from excerpts from other operas; and public concerts, which offered a hodgepodge assortment of different types and styles of performance. This book explores the phenomenon of musical miscellany in early eighteenth-century England both in performance culture and as an aesthetic.

Music --- Cosmopolitanism --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social aspects --- Eighteenth-century Britain --- Eighteenth-century aesthetics --- British cultural identity --- Musical miscellany

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Long before they appeared in the pages of Ivanhoe and nineteenth-century Old English scholarship, the Anglo-Saxons had become commonplace in Georgian Britain. The eighteenth century - closely associated with Neoclassicism and the Gothic and Celtic revivals - also witnessed the emergence of intertwined scholarly and popular Anglo-Saxonisms that helped to define what it meant to be English. This book explores scholarly Anglo-Saxon studies and imaginative Anglo-Saxonism during a century not normally associated with either. Early in the century, scholars and politicians devised a rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon inheritance in response to the Hanoverian succession, and participants in Britain's burgeoning antiquarian culture adopted simultaneously affective and scientific approaches to Anglo-Saxon remains. Patriotism, imagination and scholarship informed the writing of Enlightenment histories that presented England, its counties and its towns as Anglo-Saxon landscapes. Those same histories encouraged English readers to imagine themselves as the descendants of Anglo-Saxon ancestors - as did history paintings, book illustrations, poetry and drama that brought the Anglo-Saxon past to life. Drawing together these strands of scholarly and popular medievalism, this book identifies Anglo-Saxonism as a multifaceted, celebratory and inclusive idea of Englishness at work in eighteenth-century Britain.

National characteristics, English. --- English national characteristics --- England --- Civilization --- Social life and customs --- Affective. --- Anglo-Saxon Past. --- Anglo-Saxonism. --- Book Illustrations. --- Celtic Revival. --- Drama. --- Eighteenth-Century Britain. --- Gothic Revival. --- History Paintings. --- Idea of Englishness. --- Imaginative Anglo-Saxonism. --- Neoclassicism. --- Patriotism. --- Poetry. --- Scholarly Anglo-Saxon Studies. --- Scientific Approaches. --- Nationalism --- Anglo-Saxons --- History. --- Historiography.

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Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology.

Science and industry --- Industrial revolution --- Industry and science --- Industries --- Revolution, Industrial --- Economic history --- Social history --- History. --- Birmingham (England) --- Birmingham, Eng. --- Birmingham (West Midlands, England) --- City and Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Borough of Birmingham (England) --- History --- Révolution industrielle --- Sciences et industrie --- Birmingham (Angleterre) --- Histoire --- Birmingham. --- French Revolution. --- Industrial Enlightenment. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Soho. --- West Midlands. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- knowledge economy. --- protestant Nonconformity. --- religious complexion. --- science cultures. --- technological process.

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In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women's engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery of plant sexuality. Previously ignored primary texts of an extraordinary nature are rescued from obscurity and assigned a proper place in the histories of science, eighteenth-century literature, and women's writing. The result is groundbreaking: the author explores nationality and sexuality debates in relation to botany and charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype, the sexually precocious female botanist. She uncovers an anonymous poem on Linnaean botany, handwritten in the eighteenth century, and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women's writing - the botanical poem with scientific notes. The book is indispensable reading for all scholars of the eighteenth century, especially those interested in Romantic women's writing, or the relationship between literature and science.

Plants, Sex in --- Women botanists --- Botany in literature --- Botanical literature --- Biological literature --- Botany --- Botanists --- Women biologists --- Women in botany --- Sex in plants --- Plant physiology --- Sex (Biology) --- Plants --- History --- Women authors --- Reproduction --- Linne, Carl von, --- Influence. --- Linné, Carl von, --- Linnaeus, Carl, --- Linneĭ, Karl, --- Linnaeus, Carolus, --- Von Linné, Carl, --- Linnaeus, C., --- Linneus, --- Linné, Carolus a, --- Linné, Charles, --- Lineu, Carlos, --- Plants, Sex in. --- Literature --- Literary Theory --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh` --- Ireland --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- British women's engagement. --- Carl Linnaeus. --- Collinsonia. --- Erasmus Darwin. --- Linnaean Sexual System. --- Linnaean classification. --- Mary Wollstonecraft. --- botanical classification. --- botanical literature. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- female mind. --- female modesty. --- floristry. --- plant sexuality. --- sexual anxiety.

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Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas.

Travel --- Country homes. --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. --- HOUSE & HOME --- ARCHITECTURE --- Country homes --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Architecture, Rural --- Rural architecture --- Dwellings --- Park gate lodges --- Social aspects. --- European influences. --- Design & Construction. --- Residential. --- Social aspects --- History --- Design and construction --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Architecture, Primitive --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Architecture. --- British consciousness. --- British country house. --- Consumption. --- Country house. --- European travellers. --- Frederick Hervey. --- Gardens. --- Grand Tour. --- Guidebooks. --- Hanbury's journals. --- Indian objects. --- Mary Mackenzie. --- Material culture. --- Scattergood's journals. --- Scotland. --- Taste. --- Travel journals. --- Travel. --- ancient Rome. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- elite travel. --- landscape gardens.