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This second edition of the acclaimed study of Johnson's Dictionary incorporates new commentary and scholarship.

“A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times “[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to

The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic period's most pr

Bridging the gulf between materialist and idealist approaches this study, informed by an historical awareness of Romantic hermeneutics and its later development