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Author : Eccentric biography
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Eccentric biography; or, Sketches of remarkable characters, ancient and modern written by Eccentric biography and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Eccentric Biography; or, Sketches of remarkable characters, ancient and modern ... The whole alphabetically arranged ... Ornamented with portraits, etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Eccentric Biography, Or, Memoirs of Remarkable Characters, Ancient and Modern written by and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. S. Kirby
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Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters written by R. S. Kirby and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. S. Kirby
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters. Including All the Curiosities of Nature and Art, from the Remotest Period to the Present Time, Drawn from Every Authentic Source. Illustrated with One Hundred and Twenty-four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare and Curious Prints Or Original Drawings written by R. S. Kirby and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 778 pages
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Download or read book The World's Great and Eccentric Characters written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilyn D. Button
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313388725
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Foreign Woman in British Literature written by Marilyn D. Button and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities that have emerged as people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds have moved within her borders, or when her own citizens have emigrated among those foreigners to live or rule. This book explores the foreign element in English culture and the attempt by English writers from the early 19th to the mid 20th century to portray their complex and often ambiguous responses to that doubly foreign element among them: the foreign woman. While being foreign may begin with national or ethnic difference, the contributors to this book expand it to include other forms of alienation from a dominant culture, resulting from gender, race, class, ideology, or temperament. The many factors shaping English national identity—including British imperialism, immigration patterns, English family and social structures, and English common law—have been shaped by gender-related issues. Though not a prominent literary figure, the foreign woman in England has received increasingly critical attention in recent years as a psychological and sociological phenomenon. By beginning with Byron in the early 19th century and concluding with Lawrence Durrell in the 20th century, this study contributes to a more comprehensive vision of the foreign woman as she is portrayed by a number of British authors, including Shelley, Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronté, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Anita Brookner.
Author : Deidre Lynch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226498204
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Economy of Character written by Deidre Lynch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commercialized social relations.
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Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Great and Eccentric Characters of the World, Their Lives and Their Deeds, Representing All Ages and All Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Carroll
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981815
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Science and Eccentricity written by Victoria Carroll and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.
Author : Waltraud Ernst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134205481
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal written by Waltraud Ernst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines – ranging from art history to social history of medicine, literature, and science studies to sociology and cultural anthropology. The contributors use as their conceptual anchors the works of moral and political philosophers such as Canguilhem, Foucault and Hacking, as well as the ideas put forward by sociologists including Durkheim and Illich. With contributions from a range of scholars across differing disciplines, this book will have a broad appeal to students in many areas of history.
Author : Louis E. Catron
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478608277
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Playwriting written by Louis E. Catron and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1990-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guidebook for effective playwriting! This imaginative and enthusiastic book is designed especially for those having the desire to create, to entertain, and to express their emotions and ideas. It features a practical, down-to-earth emphasis on craft and structure rather than on theory as its step-by-step approach shows just whats involved in creating a stageworthy play. Coverage includes basic considerations such as plot and character development, theme and dialogue as well as production and publication considerations. Outstanding features: offers concrete writing guidelines; includes exercises that get the reader going and inspirational anecdotes; presents excerpts from such classics as Macbeth, The Glass Menagerie, and The Dumb Waiter that help the student grasp key concepts; lists plays to read for instruction; includes valuable information not usually found in comparable collections.
Author : Henry Wilson
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Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Wonderful Characters written by Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William S. Ward
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813164877
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Index and Finding List of Serials Published in the British Isles, 1789–1832 written by William S. Ward and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growth of interest in the periodical literature of the past has emphasized increasingly the need for specialized hand lists, a need which the American Union List of Serials, the British Union Catalogue of the Periodical Publications in the University Libraries of the British Isles, and other existing indexes cannot answer. To satisfy one area of this need, William S. Ward has compiled a near-definitive index and finding list of periodicals and newspapers of the English Romantic period. In it are reflected the holdings of almost eleven hundred American, Canadian, and British libraries and newspaper offices. The volume is also the first to list titles and library locations of all the newspapers, magazines, and other serials published in the British Isles during the years between the French Revolution and the Great Reform Bill.
Author : Timothy Alborn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000586006
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Misers written by Timothy Alborn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving, spending, and investment. Misers surveys this class of people—as invented and interpreted in sermons, poems, novels, and plays; analyzed by economists and philosophers; and profiled in obituaries and biographies—to explore how British attitudes about saving money shifted between 1700 and 1860. As opposed to the century before, the nineteenth century witnessed a new appreciation for misers, as economists credited them with adding to the nation's stock of capital and novelists newly imagined their capacity to empathize with fellow human beings. These characters shared the spotlight with real people who posthumously donned that label, populating into a cottage industry of miser biographies by the 1850s. By the time A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843, many Victorians had come to embrace misers as links that connected one generation’s extreme saving with the next generation’s virtuous spending. With a broad chronological period, this volume is useful for students and scholars interested in representation of misers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : Trevor James Cooper
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035841444
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Three Score Years and Ten: or More? written by Trevor James Cooper and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Score Years and Ten: Or More? delves into the enduring fascination with individuals who live beyond 100 years. The intrigue centres not only on the accomplishment itself but also on the mysteries of how and why these people achieve such remarkable longevity. This research shifts its focus from contemporary centenarians, whose ages can be more reliably verified due to improved record-keeping, to an earlier era marked by less clear historical records. It investigates the genesis of this interest and the emergence of what could be termed a ‘cult of centenarianism.’ During this period, claims of extreme old age sparked debates between believers and sceptics, creating a cultural divide. The book also examines the significant role media played in this phenomenon. The portrayal and promotion of centenarians by the media of the time laid the groundwork for themes explored in this book, contributing to the ongoing public intrigue surrounding individuals of advanced age.
Author : Carolyn J. Lesjak
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503627829
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Afterlife of Enclosure written by Carolyn J. Lesjak and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands, labor, and basic concepts of public life leading into the nineteenth century. The Afterlife of Enclosure examines three canonical British writers—Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy—as narrators of this history, the long duration and diffuse effects of which required new literary forms to capture the lived experience of enclosure and its aftermath. This study boldly reconceives the realist novel, not as an outdated artifact, but as witness to the material and environmental dispossession of enclosure—and bearer of utopian energies. These writers reinvented a commons committed to the collective nature of the social world. Illuminating the common at the heart of the novel—from common characters to commonplace events—Carolyn Lesjak reveals an experimental figuration of the lost commons, once a defining feature of the British landscape and political imaginary. In the face of privatization, climate change, new enclosures, and the other forms of slow violence unfolding globally today, this book looks back to a literature of historical trauma and locates within it a radical path forward.
