id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_xbvlxxr3uncvfhl5xnpvtget4a Anne M. Myers John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong, eds. The English Urban Renaissance Revisited. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Pp. 239. $119.95 (cloth) 2018 2 .pdf application/pdf 1341 76 50 Inspired by a reexamination of Peter Borsay's The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660–1770 (1989), The English Urban Renaissance Revisited is Essays purport to reassess Borsay's thesis that an "urban renaissance" emerged in post-Restoration English provincial towns, as well as to test the temporal drawn from England, Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Hungary, and colonial America, contributions to The English Urban Renaissance Revisited are informative, engaging, and densely The essays in The English Urban Renaissance Revisited will be especially enriching for those the geographic bounds of Borsay's thesis by applying central concepts of the urban renaissance Each essay is methodologically consistent within itself, and many offer illuminating comparative work, as in Green's "The Big House in the English Provincial Town," where the political Thus, if The English Urban Renaissance Revisited does not reassess the value of Borsay's thesis Sheila Johnson Kindred's Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer ./cache/work_xbvlxxr3uncvfhl5xnpvtget4a.pdf ./txt/work_xbvlxxr3uncvfhl5xnpvtget4a.txt