Series: Routledge Historical Resources

British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Volume 3 explores Freemasonry as a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment, with an international influence across the globe. This primary resource collection charts a key period in the development of organised Freemasonry, culminating in the formation of a single United Grand Lodge of England. The secrecy that has historically surrounded...

This significant collection of essays examines the cultural, literary, philosophical and historical representation of beauty in British, Irish and American literature. Contributors use the works of Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender, among others, to explore the role of beauty and its wider implications in art and society.