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Book Synopsis Horace Walpole's Letters by : George E. Haggerty
Download or read book Horace Walpole's Letters written by George E. Haggerty and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; hies physical and mental pain; his artistic appreciation and his critical responses. It is impossible to read these letters and not come away with a vivid impression of a complex personality from another age. Haggerty examines the ways in which Walpole presents himself as an eighteenth-century gentleman, and considers his personal relationships, his needs and aspirations, his emotionalism and his rationality - in short, his construction of himself - in order to see what it tells us about the age in general and more specifically, about masculinity in an era of social flux. This study of Walpole and his epistolary relations offers a unique window into both the history of masculinity in the eighteenth century and the codification of friendship as the preeminent value in western culture. Recent studies have tried to rewrite Walpole in a twenty-first century mold while this work looks at the writer and the ways in which he constructs himself and his relations, not in hopes of uncovering a lurid secret, but rather in pursuit of the figure that he created and that has fascinated generations of readers and writers since the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Letters of Horace Walpole by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selected Letters of Horace Walpole by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book Selected Letters of Horace Walpole written by Horace Walpole and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walpoliana written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill by : Yale Center for British Art
Download or read book Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill written by Yale Center for British Art and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace Walpole (1717-1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the center of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic, and intellectual circles of his day. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-known commentator on the rich cultural life of 18th-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his extraordinary collections of rare books and manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armor, and curiosities, all displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival house at Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham. This timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole’s collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry Hill coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill assembles an international team of distinguished scholars to explore the ways in which Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural, and imagined histories.
Book Synopsis Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third written by Horace Walpole and published by London : Printed for J. Dodsley. This book was released on 1768 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Constantine to Grazing by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book Constantine to Grazing written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are correspondences of 194 letters to Walpole from Conway and from his wife, Lady Ailesbury (as well as one from his sister Mrs. Harris). The letters first published in this correspondence amplify and modify the accepted public image of Conway as a fearless soldier and perceptive statesman who saw that it was impossible to subjugate the American colonies.
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto Illustrated by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto Illustrated written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle - "A Gothic Story". The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture
Book Synopsis Madame Du Deffand and Her World by : Benedetta Craveri
Download or read book Madame Du Deffand and Her World written by Benedetta Craveri and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame du Deffand (1696-1780) was a minor French aristocrat who, bored by her marriage, threw herself into scandalous relationships with leading noblemen, including the French Regent. She later re-invented herself as a highly successful salonniere, her salon being frequented by leading thinkers of the day. She also maintained very witty, perceptive correspondences with Voltaire (whose letters back are full expositions of his philosophy) and later with Horace Walpole with whom she fell deeply in love, much to his shock.
Book Synopsis The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Three Princes of Serendip by : Elizabeth Jamison Hodges
Download or read book The Three Princes of Serendip written by Elizabeth Jamison Hodges and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retelling of the a story of three princes from Serendip and their journeys.
Download or read book Q's Legacy written by Helene Hanff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-08-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q’s book, and, wanting to read all the books he recommended, began to order them from a small store in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Thus began a correspondence that became an enormously popular book, play, television production, and movie, and that finally led to the trip to England -- and a visit to Q’s study -- that she recounts in this exuberant memoir. Hanff pays her debt to her mentor and shares her joyous adventures with her many fans. "Reading Helene Hanff’s book is like making a new friend -- a charming, wise, and funny one." -- Betty Rollin "A potpourri . . . easy and assured . . . A delightful companion for the odd hour." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Hanff’s charm is such that when she exults . . . we exult right along with her." -- Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis In Search of Jane Austen by : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Download or read book In Search of Jane Austen written by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen's private language is rarely studied, yet her letters are a linguistic goldmine. This sociolinguistic study analyses the grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Jane Austen's letters — many of which were addressed to her sister, Cassandra — providing readers with a deeper understanding of Austen as an author.
Book Synopsis Horace Walpole's Cat by : Christopher Frayling
Download or read book Horace Walpole's Cat written by Christopher Frayling and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic death of Walpole's cat and the Thomas Gray poem written in her honor: the true story of what happened, and a look at the lively social and cultural scene in the eighteenth century. This delightful compendium focuses on one of the best-loved poems in the English language, but in the process it takes the reader on an engaging romp through the literary, intellectual, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. It brings alive a host of engaging characters: Horace Walpole himself (one of the great letter writers of all time, wit, raconteur; the curmudgeonly Dr. Johnson (who nevertheless had “a very fine cat indeed”) and his sometimes recalcitrant biographer James Boswell; and a cast of “handsome cats,” including Selima and Zama. In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese blue and white porcelain tub in Walpole’s house in London’s Mayfair and never returned to dry land. The poem by Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold-fishes,” was written as her mock epitaph. Here is the true history of the event, and a look at the sparkling social and cultural life of the period. It is beautifully illustrated with Richard Bentley’s original series of designs for the poem, William Blake’s wonderful watercolors of some fifty years later, and the unpublished color illustrations produced in the 1940s by the noted children’s book illustrator Kathleen Hale, of Orlando the Marmalade Cat fame.
Book Synopsis The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley by : Robert Dodsley
Download or read book The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley written by Robert Dodsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.
