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Author : John Byng Torrington (5th Viscount)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Torrington Diaries written by John Byng Torrington (5th Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jocelyn Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501334980
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Jocelyn Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities: increasingly accessible to tourists and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. This book examines how these identities emerged, repositioning the importance of country houses in 18th-century Britain and exploring what it took to turn them into tourist attractions. Drawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant to tour country houses such as Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Wilton, Kedleston and Burghley in the tumultuous 1700s. It also questions the legacies of these early tourists: both as a critical cultural practice in the 18th century and an extraordinary and controversial influence in British culture today, country-house tourism is a phenomenon that demands investigation.
Author : Peter Denney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317052501
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850 written by Peter Denney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring how censured behaviours and recommended practices resonated beyond the written word. As the contributors show, understanding changing perceptions and valuations of noise and sound allows us to chart how civility was understood in the context of significant political, social and cultural change, including the development of urban life, the extension of empire and the consolidation of legal procedure. Divided into three parts, Sound, Space and Civility in the British World demonstrates how both noise and sound could be recognized by eighteenth-century Britons as expressions of civility. The essays also explore the audible implications of uncivil conduct to complicate our understanding of the sonic range of politeness. The uses of sound and noise to interrogate British colonial anxieties about the distinction between civility and incivility are also investigated. Taken together, the essays identify the emergence of civility as a development that radically altered sonic attitudes and experiences, producing new notions of what counted as desirable or undesirable sound.
Author : Nikolai Tolstoy
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445659549
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Mysteries of Stonehenge written by Nikolai Tolstoy and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythic foundations of the world's greatest archaeological mystery.
Author : Michael Heaney
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803273879
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Ancient English Morris Dance written by Michael Heaney and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of morris dancing in England, from its introduction in the 15th century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, when morris dancing and maypoles became potent symbols of the older ways of living, to its re-invention as an emblem of Victorian concepts of Merrie England in the 19th century.
Author : Bryan D. Spinks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351921797
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Liturgy in the Age of Reason written by Bryan D. Spinks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worship has always been affected by its surrounding culture. This book examines the changing perspectives in and discussions on worship styles and practices from the Restoration to the death of Wesley, in England and Scotland. Moving beyond the text, Spinks grounds the discussion within the changing cultural and intellectual framework of the period referred to as the Enlightenment. The focus is the end of the early modern period, when already the upheaval of the English Civil War, the methods of the Cambridge Platonists, and the thinking of Descartes and Spinoza were making the period one of transition, and Newtonian thought and the thought of John Locke impacted theological thought and worship forms. It is against this framework that the worship in England and Scotland will be described and assessed. As well as published and unpublished liturgical documents, this book draws on contemporary accounts and descriptions of worship, catechisms, sermons and theological works, and contemporary diaries. Musical and architectural changes are also noted, particularly the late seventeenth century hymns of Richard Davies of Rothwell, Joseph Stennett and Benjamin Keach. This book places worship in the society which it served, and from which changes sprang. It explores the interaction of cultural thought and worship, drawing parallels between the Enlightenment period and problems of late modernity and the worship wars of the late twentieth century.
Author : Louis A. Landa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400877326
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book English Literature, Volume 1 written by Louis A. Landa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes which will make available in convenient form the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published for the past 25 years in the Philological Quarterly. Volume 1 includes the years 1926-1938. By means of lithography the original issues are exactly reproduced with retention of all critical annotations. Originally published in 1950. 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.
Author : Jon Stobart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000438740
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House written by Jon Stobart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Achieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines, religious faith and, above all, relationships with family and friends. Such emotional comforts, and the attachment to things and places that embodied and memorialized them, made country houses into homes.
Author : Margaret E. Bradshaw
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691251339
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Teesdale's Special Flora written by Margaret E. Bradshaw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive and richly illustrated guide to the botanically unique area of Upper Teesdale in England’s County Durham To anyone who loves the wild flowers of Great Britain and Ireland, there are some places that beckon time and again, such as The Lizard in Cornwall, The Burren in Ireland’s County Clare and Ben Lawers in Perthshire, Scotland. Upper Teesdale in England’s County Durham must, however, be included among these jewels of our botanical heritage. This locality, which is within sight of the highest point of the Pennines, has an outstanding and special flora that has been shaped by its altitude, land-use patterns and diverse geology. Many of the plants found here are rare and localized, while others are more common and widespread, but together they form the botanically unique Teesdale Assemblage. For this reason, Upper Teesdale is a hotspot for botanists. It is also a scenically beautiful area, located within easy reach of the industrial heartlands of the north-east, and is much visited by walkers and tourists. This book offers visitors unique insights about this area and its botanical riches. Presents the first account to cover together the places, plants and people of this special area Features more than 330 stunning photographs Includes detailed profiles of 96 plants that make up the Teesdale Assemblage Offers a history of Teesdale’s botanical exploration and describes the people who live, work and study plants there today Provides an overview of environmental threats and what is required to ensure a sustainable future
Author : Kate Felus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786730073
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden written by Kate Felus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the eighteenth century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks. Its publication coincides with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, and the book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context.
Author : Francesca Saggini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527551873
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The House of Fiction as the House of Life written by Francesca Saggini and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the interest in the house has grown irresistibly, to the point that in many ways houses seem to be situated at the very core of the creative, artistic and cultural domains of contemporaneity. Their presence sprawls across the media, from magazines to TV programmes, and across the globe, possibly because as repositories of the human, houses have a long-standing and profound connection not only with men and women but, at a deeper level, with the ways of representing man’s world, across its declinations of gender, class, and race. Houses – the perennial, ubiquitous and silent background to our daily lives – could many “a tale unfold”: the tales of their inhabitants and/in their relationships with others, of the times they lived in, of their configurations of the world, as well as the visions (and nightmares) of the artists who created them. This collection offers a comprehensive and transdisciplinary look at the paper houses of English Literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Among the configurations addressed, the authors investigate the domestic spatialization of authority, gendered houses, narratives of household construction and deconstruction, exotic mansions, fin-de-siècle habitats, haunted edifices, and houses in detective and Gothic fiction.
Author : John Byng Torrington (5th Viscount)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Torrington Diaries written by John Byng Torrington (5th Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Readman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108575811
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Storied Ground written by Paul Readman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of industrial Manchester to the heart of London. This panoramic journey reveals the significance, not only of the physical characteristics of landscapes, but also of the sense of the past, collective memories and cultural traditions that give these places their meaning. Between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, Englishness extended far beyond the pastoral idyll of chocolate-box thatched cottages, waving fields of corn and quaint country churches. It was found in diverse locations - urban as well as rural, north as well as south - and it took strikingly diverse forms.
Author : Angela Youngman
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399080881
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Dark Side of Jane Austen's World written by Angela Youngman and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen’s novels are read all over the globe, and adaptations of her works have graced both film and TV screens. Although sometimes criticised for being detached from the real world, providing nothing more than light-hearted plot-driven story lines, the reality is very different. Jane was aware of the evils of society, of the problems faced by women whether single or married. Underneath the entertaining story lines are much darker aspects of Regency and Georgian life. Staying single resulted in serious problems for young women; there were very few alternatives open to them, while marriage itself resulted in other risks. The threats of poverty or becoming a victim of crime were also an issue. Indeed, Jane’s aunt spent months in prison and faced the threat of transportation for theft. Other problems society faced included those posed by opium addiction, poor medical standards, and a lack of property leaving young men and women struggling to survive. Many sought solutions in India, leading to the creation of ‘fishing fleets’ with girls sent to marry total unknowns. Meanwhile, the issues of slavery brought more problems, and social disorder was rife. Jane Austen created classic stories that have endured the test of time, reflecting society in all its aspects, faults, values both good and bad. This is Jane Austen as you have never seen her before.
Author : Charles Hugh Egerton Smyth
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Simeon & Church Order written by Charles Hugh Egerton Smyth and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1940 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Smyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110745882X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Simeon and Church Order written by Charles Smyth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1940, this book assesses the contributions made by Charles Simeon to the Evangelical Revival in Cambridge in the eighteenth century.
Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198206699
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-century England written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an analysis of 18th-century urban culture and local historical scholarship. The author shows how a sense of the past was crucial not only in instilling civic pride and shaping a sense of community, but also in informing contests for power and influence in the local community.
