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Author : Miss Fanny M-
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Total Pages : 226 pages
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Author : George Colman
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Total Pages : 50 pages
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Download or read book Polly Honeycombe written by George Colman and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : George Colman
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Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book Polly Honeycombe ... [By George Colman, the elder.] As it is now acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane written by George Colman and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard B. Sheridan
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770483500
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe written by Richard B. Sheridan and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe revolve around young women who wish the world would conform to novelistic convention. Unlike most eighteenth-century heroines keen on novel reading, however, Lydia Languish and Polly Honeycombe are neither deluded nor in any real danger. Rather, they inhabit a world in which everyone is engaged in some sort of quixotic performance; the more appealing characters are just willing to admit it. Both farcical and wise, these plays teasingly celebrate the perennial appeal of fiction, while never letting us forget how much it relies upon the everyday rituals of performance. The introduction to this Broadview edition explores the interrelations between print and performance in the eighteenth century, including a detailed and well-illustrated account of what it was like to go to the theater. Appendices include material on the original casts, the often dubious reputation of novel reading and circulating libraries, Sheridan’s high-profile elopement with Elizabeth Linley (which made him a celebrity before he ever staged a word), and the narrative possibilities conjured up by setting The Rivals in the resort city of Bath.
Author : Colman (the Elder)
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book The Dramatic Works written by Colman (the Elder) and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Colman
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Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book The Dramatick Works of George Colman ...: Polly Honeycombe. The musical lady. The deuce is in him. The Oxonian in town. The portrait. The fairy prince. Occasional prelude. The spleen; or, Islington-Spa. New brooms! written by George Colman and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Colman
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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Polly Honeycombe, a dramatick novel of one act and in prose. By G. Colman, the elder written by George Colman and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Colman
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Total Pages : 358 pages
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Author : Barbara White
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493884
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Queen of the Courtesans written by Barbara White and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny Murray was an incomparable Georgian beauty and the most desired courtesan of the 1750s. The daughter of an impoverished musician from Bath, she took London society by storm, not only as the most prized 'purchaseable beauty' of her day, but also as a fashion icon and muse to poets, writers and artists. She counted princes, aristocrats and politicians among her friends and lovers, but relished the company of rogues, fraudsters and ne'er-do-wells. Barbara White presents evidence to suggest that Fanny Murray participated spiritedly in the sexual antics of the notorious 'Monks of Medmenham', the most infamous of the Hell-fire Clubs. After she retired from prostitution, Fanny Murray reinvented herself, entering a pragmatic marriage with the Scottish actor David Ross. Surprisingly, her virtues as a devoted and faithful wife became almost proverbial. Even so, Murray could not escape her disreputable past. In 1763, a scurrilous poem dedicated to her caused a national scandal that ended in the infamous trial of the radical politician John Wilkes for obscene libel. Barbara White's portrait of Fanny Murray takes readers from the brothels of Covent Garden to sex romps at Medmenham Abbey, from refined drawing rooms in London to marital respectability in Edinburgh. This is an illuminating contribution to the scholarly understanding and popular appreciation of a complex and intriguing period of British history. Fanny Murray's triumph – against almost insuperable odds – is a remarkable story, as rich in the telling as it is enthralling.
Author : Julie Peakman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474226450
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Amatory Pleasures written by Julie Peakman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, criminal conversation, erotic gardens, gentlemen's homosocial societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and the world of female friendship, revealing the secret or hidden meanings circulating between mainstream and covert activities of the 18th century. Julie Peakman draws connections between these pieces and situates them within current debates and examines how Georgian sexual activity was integrated from low life and high places, from brothels to palaces. Aimed at anyone interested in gender, history of sexuality, sex, literature and 18th-century history, Amatory Pleasures is an invaluable collection of the work of a key scholar in the field.
Author : Laura J. Rosenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801454344
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Infamous Commerce written by Laura J. Rosenthal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies" to the period's most acclaimed novels, the prostitute was depicted as facing a choice between abject poverty and some form of sex work. Prostitution, in Rosenthal's view, confronted the core controversies of eighteenth-century capitalism: luxury, desire, global trade, commodification, social mobility, gender identity, imperialism, self-ownership, alienation, and even the nature of work itself. In the context of extensive research into printed accounts of both male and female prostitution—among them sermons, popular prostitute biographies, satire, pornography, brothel guides, reformist writing, and travel narratives—Rosenthal offers in-depth readings of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and the responses to the latter novel (including Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela), Bernard Mandeville's defenses of prostitution, Daniel Defoe's Roxana, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and travel journals about the voyages of Captain Cook to the South Seas. Throughout, Rosenthal considers representations of the prostitute's own sexuality (desire, revulsion, etc.) to be key parts of the changing meaning of "the oldest profession."
Author : Laura Rosenthal
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770482016
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Nightwalkers written by Laura Rosenthal and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology makes available for the first time a selection of narratives by and about prostitutes in the eighteenth century. These memoirs, some written by and some about eighteenth-century prostitutes, offer important insights into female experience and class and gender roles in the period. Portraying the lives of women in both success and hardship, written in voices ranging from repentant to bawdy, the memoirs show the complexity of the lives of the “nightwalkers.” For eighteenth-century readers, as Laura Rosenthal writes in her introduction, these memoirs “offered sensual and sentimental journeys, glimpses into high life and low life, and relentless confrontations with the explosive power of money and the vulnerability of those without it.” Offering a range of narratives from the conservative and reformist to the unabashedly libertine, this book provides a fascinating alternative look into eighteenth-century culture.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521213103
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 5, Index written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-06-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to the new edition of volume 5 of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Mary Peace
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315308347
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Changing Sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital written by Mary Peace and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentimentalism became popular in the eighteenth century, part of the philosophical idea that truth is founded on emotion or moral sentiment. Peace uses the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes as a prism through which to explore the sentimental writing of this period.
Author : George Sebastian Rousseau
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1611461200
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Notorious Sir John Hill written by George Sebastian Rousseau and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of one of Georgian England's most notorious figures, who thrived on scandal, fracas, and the cultivation of notoriety. Despite this he managed to make contributions to diverse fields, including botany, geology, literature, medicine and the professionalization of science, whose value has stood the test of time. Hill appears here in the company of other illuminati such as Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Smart, Linnaeus, Haller and the Fellows of the Royal Society.
Author : Randolph Trumbach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226812908
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume 1 written by Randolph Trumbach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolution in gender relations occurred in London around 1700, resulting in a sexual system that endured in many aspects until the sexual revolution of the 1960s. For the first time in European history, there emerged three genders: men, women, and a third gender of adult effeminate sodomites, or homosexuals. This third gender had radical consequences for the sexual lives of most men and women since it promoted an opposing ideal of exclusive heterosexuality. In Sex and the Gender Revolution, Randolph Trumbach reconstructs the worlds of eighteenth-century prostitution, illegitimacy, sexual violence, and adultery. In those worlds the majority of men became heterosexuals by avoiding sodomy and sodomite behavior. As men defined themselves more and more as heterosexuals, women generally experienced the new male heterosexuality as its victims. But women—as prostitutes, seduced servants, remarrying widows, and adulterous wives— also pursued passion. The seamy sexual underworld of extramarital behavior was central not only to the sexual lives of men and women, but to the very existence of marriage, the family, domesticity, and romantic love. London emerges as not only a geographical site but as an actor in its own right, mapping out domains where patriarchy, heterosexuality, domesticity, and female resistance take vivid form in our imaginations and senses. As comprehensive and authoritative as it is eloquent and provocative, this book will become an indispensable study for social and cultural historians and delightful reading for anyone interested in taking a close look at sex and gender in eighteenth-century London.
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Total Pages : 1426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
