Bøger af Anita Guerrini

A collection of essays dealing with the history of the Scottish Enlightenment, its connection with the European Enlightenment in general, such major figures as Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, and David Hume, and the making of theScottish identity.

Explores the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal. The author reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. She tell the story of Joseph-Guichard Duverney, who performed violent, riot-inducing dissections of both animal and human bodies before the king at Versailles.

Offers a perspective on the development and cultural practice of print in early modern Britain. This title features fifteen essays that explore the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth-centuries collected and 'appreciated' the early modern popular forms.