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Author : Kathryn Gilbert Dapp
Publisher : Philadelphia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book George Keate, Esq., Eighteenth Century English Gentleman written by Kathryn Gilbert Dapp and published by Philadelphia. This book was released on 1939 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 730 pages
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Download or read book The Eighteenth Century, 1926-74 written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Ewing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408820757
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Lost World of James Smithson written by Heather Ewing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift - a bequest of 104,960 gold sovereigns (then worth half a million dollars) to establish a foundation in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men'. The Smithsonian Institution, as it would eventually be called, grew into the largest museum and research complex in the world. Yet it owes its existence to an Englishman who never set foot in the United States, and who has remained a shadowy figure for more than a hundred and fifty years. Smithson lived a restless life in the capitals of Europe during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; at one time he was trailed by the French secret police, and later languished as a prisoner of war in Denmark for four long years. Yet despite a certain a penchant for gambling and fine living, he had, by the time of his death in Paris in 1829, amassed a financial fortune and a wealth of scientific papers that he left to the new democracy America. Spurned by his natural father and his country, he would be acknowledged for his own achievements in the New World. Drawing on unpublished diaries and letters from archives all over Europe and the United States, Heather Ewing tells the full and compelling story for the first time, revealing a life lived at the heart of the English Enlightenment and illuminating the mind that sparked the creation of America's greatest museum.
Author : Kathryn Gilbert Dapp
Publisher : Philadelphia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book George Keate, Esq., Eighteenth Century English Gentleman written by Kathryn Gilbert Dapp and published by Philadelphia. This book was released on 1939 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis A. Landa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400877334
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book English Literature, Volume 2 written by Louis A. Landa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes containing the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published in the Philological Quarterly. "An excellent aid to the student of 18th century literature."—Saturday Review. Volume 2, 1939-1950, includes consolidated index for both volumes. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Bibliograpphy of English Language and Literature written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nina Burleigh
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 161230849X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum written by Nina Burleigh and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, New York Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian. It was one of the nineteenth century's greatest philanthropic gifts - and one of its most puzzling mysteries. In 1829, a wealthy English naturalist named James Smithson left his library, mineral collection, and entire fortune to the "United States of America, to found... an establishment for the increase & diffusion of Knowledge among men" - even though he had never visited the United States or known any Americans. In this fascinating book, Burleigh pieces together the reclusive benefactor's life, beginning with his origins as the Paris-born illegitimate son of the first Duke of Northumberland and a wild adventuress who preserved for her son a fortune through gall and determination. The book follows Smithson through his university years and his passionate study of minerals across Europe during the chaos of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Detailed are his imprisonment - simply for being an Englishman in the wrong place - his experiences in the gambling dens of France, and his lonely and painstaking scientific pursuits. After Smithson's death, nineteenth-century American politicians were given the task of securing his half-million dollars - the equivalent today of $50 million - and then trying to determine how to increase and diffuse knowledge from the muddy, brawling new city of Washington. Burleigh discloses how Smithson's bequest was nearly lost due to fierce battles among many clashing Americans - Southern slavers, states' rights advocates, nation-builders, corrupt frontiersmen, and Anglophobes who argued over whether a gift from an Englishman should even be accepted. She also reveals the efforts of the unsung heroes, mainly former president John Quincy Adams, whose tireless efforts finally saw Smithson's curious notion realized in 1846, with a castle housing the United States' first and greatest cultural and scientific establishment.
Author : Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by Frederick Wilse Bateson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1940 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vanessa Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521437512
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Vanessa Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book English Literature, 1660-1800 written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Salmon Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877521631
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book English Literature, 1660-1800: 1939-1950 written by Ronald Salmon Crane and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. Overton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230593461
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle written by B. Overton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles. It advances a new model for defining the form, demonstrates the form's importance in the period, and pays attention to non-canonical epistles by women and labouring-class writers.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of King John written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new edition of one of Shakespeare's more neglected plays offers a wide-ranging critical introduction, concentrating on its relevance to Elizabethan political issues and on the role played in it by women, by legal concepts and practices, and by the family. The printing of the play in the First Folio (1623) is studied in fresh detail, and there are illustrations of the play in performance, and a comprehensive stage history. Full and helpful annotation pays special attention to the play's language and staging.
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Total Pages : 652 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of English and Germanic Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandro Jung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fragmentary Poetic written by Sandro Jung and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fragmentary Poetic is the first study of the mode of the fragmentary eighteenth-century poetry. Revisiting traditional literary historiography, it offers a fresh account of the "Pindaric" impulse, a mode informing deliberate fragmentation. Its "amphibian" nature accommodates its transgeneric use in genres as varied as the ode and the epic, deploying the ruin as an emblem of its deliberate resistance to closure or the sublime to indicate rupture. The study discusses the ode, the long-poem, imitations of Spenser, Macpherson's "reinventions" of the epic, and poems engaging with memory and ruin. Poets variously utilized the fragmentary as a mode reflecting human fallibility, but also (paradoxically) as evidence for original completeness and authenticity. Detailed discussions of poems include works ranging from Thomson and Young to Macpherson, Charlotte Smith, and Wordsworth. Scholars of both eighteenth-century and Romantic period poetry will find this book a useful guide to the generic complexity of eighteenth-century poetry. This account of the polymorphous nature of the fragment and definitional and formal fluidity enables scholars to rethink eighteenth-century form and to appreciate a pervasive mode that found its most varying expression in the poetry of the period. Sandro Jung is the James Thomson Fellow in Eighteenth- and Ninteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford.
Author : George Keate
Publisher : Leicester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Account of the Pelew Islands written by George Keate and published by Leicester University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1783 the East India Company packet, the Antelope, was wrecked on the Pelew Islands (modern Micronesia). Captain Henry Wilson and his crew developed unusually amicable relations with the Palauan inhabitants, and when they departed, the 'prince' Lee Boo went with them to Britain. Lee Boo was a figure of fashionable interest in London, at once highly regarded for his intelligence, yet treated also as an exotic curiosity. His death from smallpox in 1784 occasioned wide regretful comment. An Account of the Pelew Islands is based on extensive interviews with Captain Wilson, Lee Boo and other participants. This new edition reproduces the text and includes essays on its significance for late eighteenth-century European culture and on the Micronesian dimensions of the voyage and the book. Annotations explain and contextualize points of historical and ethnographic significance and the original fine engraved portraits, artifacts and charts as well as clear new maps are included.
