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Author : Stefania Buccini
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041196
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825 written by Stefania Buccini and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422381175
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 94, no. 3) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623957915
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of America's most famous memoirs. In this text, Ben Franklin shares his life story and details his attempts to build a life of good habits and virtues. His plan for self-improvement was one of the first "self help" books and his role as a founder of the United States is given a personal perspective. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Author : Rosamaria Loretelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443820520
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Rosamaria Loretelli and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics, music and art, and explore such themes as the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque; the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts; imaginary voyages as a literary genre; the genesis of children’s literature; the Italian opera and musical theory in Frances Burney’s novels; Italian and British art theories; and patterns of cultural transfers and of book circulation between Britain and Italy in the eighteenth century. Collectively they epitomise the concerns and approaches of scholars working on the long eighteenth century at this challenging and exciting time. In the absence of universally agreed, overarching interpretations of the cultural history of the long eighteenth century, these papers pave the way for the ultimate emergence of such explanations. Authors discussed here include Margaret Cavendish, David Russen, Francis Hutcheson, Reverend Gilpin, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Dugald Stewart, Dorothy Kilner, Frances Burney, Anna Gordon Brown, Saverio Bettinelli, Henry Ince Blundell, Francesco Algarotti, Ugo Foscolo and Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi.
Author : Nian-Sheng Huang
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692115
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990 written by Nian-Sheng Huang and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Benjamin Franklin's diverse legacies in American life from 1790, the year of his death, to 1990. This book also focuses on the intricate relations between the functions of images and perceptions in society on the one hand and the changing social and cultural conditions that have constantly affected the alterations of those images and perceptions on the other. Includes a Selected Bibliography. Illustrations.
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422381205
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 94, no. 6) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Staib
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538746670
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Download or read book A Taste of History Cookbook written by Walter Staib and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delicious, informative, and entertaining cookbook tie-in to PBS's Emmy Award-winning series A Taste of History. A TASTE OF HISTORY COOKBOOK provides a fascinating look into 18th and 19th century American history. Featuring over 150 elegant and approachable recipes featured in the Taste of History television series, paired with elegantly styled food photography, readers will want to recreate these dishes in their modern-day kitchens. Woven throughout the recipes are fascinating history lessons that introduce the people, places, and events that shaped our unique American democracy and cuisine. For instance, did you know that tofu has been a part of our culture's diet for centuries? Ben Franklin sung its praises in a letter written in 1770! With recipes like West Indies Pepperpot Soup, which was served to George Washington's troops to nourish them during the long winter at Valley Forge to Cornmeal Fried Oysters, the greatest staple of the 18th century diet to Boston's eponymous Boston Cream Pie, A TASTE OF HISTORY COOKBOOK is a must-have for both cookbook and history enthusiasts alike.
Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674066595
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin's Science written by I. Bernard Cohen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the scientific work of Benjamin Franklin in fields ranging from heat to astronomy ; provides accounts of the theoretical backgroung of his science, the experiments he performed, and their influence throughout Europe and the U.S.
Author : Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521897084
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution written by Pierpaolo Polzonetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polzonetti reveals how revolutionary America inspired eighteenth-century European audiences, and how it can still inspire and entertain us.
Author : Italian Institute (London, England)
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Art and Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Lectures given at the Italian Institute 1957-1958 written by Italian Institute (London, England) and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Cunningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521382359
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century written by Andrew Cunningham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.
Author : American Philosophical Society. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Library Bulletin written by American Philosophical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carla J. Mulford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190273186
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire written by Carla J. Mulford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from Benjamin Franklin's published and unpublished papers, including letters, notes, and marginalia, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire examines how the early modern liberalism of Franklin's youthful intellectual life helped foster his vision of independence from Britain that became his hallmark achievement. In the early chapters, Carla Mulford explores the impact of Franklin's family history - especially their difficult times during the English Civil War - on Franklin's intellectual life and his personal and political goals. The book's middle chapters show how Franklin's fascination with British imperial strategy grew from his own analyses of the financial, environmental, and commercial potential of North America. Franklin's involvement in Pennsylvania's politics led him to devise strategies for monetary stability, intercolonial trade, Indian affairs, and imperial defense that would have assisted the British Empire in its effort to take over the world. When Franklin realized that the goals of British ministers were to subordinate colonists in a system that assisted the lives of Britons in England but undermined the wellbeing of North Americans, he began to criticize the goals of British imperialism. Mulford argues that Franklin's turn away from the British Empire began in the 1750s - not the 1770s, as most historians have suggested - and occurred as a result of Franklin's perceptive analyses of what the British Empire was doing not just in the American colonies but in Ireland and India. In the last chapters, Mulford reveals how Franklin ultimately grew restive, formed alliances with French intellectuals and the court of France, and condemned the actions of the British Empire and imperial politicians. As a whole, Mulford's book provides a fresh reading of a much-admired founding father, suggesting how Franklin's conception of the freedoms espoused in England's ages old Magna Carta could be realized in the political life of the new American nation.
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487546416
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Courting Celebrity written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener’s daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese’s account focuses on her unique experience as a peasant girl who came of age among the Venetian elite, and details how she attained a certain renown in and out of Italy by improvising, writing, and publishing her own lyrics. Courting Celebrity is a bilingual annotated edition of Veronese’s autobiography. To better elucidate Veronese’s thinking, the book includes the autobiographical writing of another contemporary Italian poet, Teresa Bandettini, a well-known Tuscan poet-improviser. The book offers a substantial sample of Veronese’s poems, translated and in the original. These compositions, together with detailed bibliographical documentation, point to the success of Veronese’s autobiographical enterprise and offer an unparalleled view of both high society and popular culture at the time. Courting Celebrity illustrates women’s practice in two key literary genres, poetry and autobiography, and illuminates the strategies of women’s self-fashioning and pursuit of celebrity.
Author : Jeff Jarvis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501394843
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Gutenberg Parenthesis written by Jeff Jarvis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024 The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority of the printed word. As a technology, print at its birth was as disruptive as the digital migration of today. Now, as the internet ushers us past print culture, journalist Jeff Jarvis offers important lessons from the era we leave behind. To understand our transition out of the Gutenberg Age, Jarvis first examines the transition into it. Tracking Western industrialized print to its origins, he explores its invention, spread, and evolution, as well as the bureaucracy and censorship that followed. He also reveals how print gave rise to the idea of the mass – mass media, mass market, mass culture, mass politics, and so on – that came to dominate the public sphere. What can we glean from the captivating, profound, and challenging history of our devotion to print? Could it be that we are returning to a time before mass media, to a society built on conversation, and that we are relearning how to hold that conversation with ourselves? Brimming with broader implications for today's debates over communication, authorship, and ownership, Jarvis' exploration of print on a grand scale is also a complex, compelling history of technology and power.
Author : Lilith Mahmud
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609605X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters written by Lilith Mahmud and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “stupendous ethnography of female Freemasonry in Italy” reveals the fascinating paradox of elitism and exclusion experienced by “female brothers” (Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity). From its cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, the Freemasons have long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: there are also female members. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Lilith Mahmud takes readers inside Masonic lodges of contemporary Italy, where she observes the ritualistic and fraternal bonds forged among Freemason women. Offering a tantalizing look behind lodge doors, The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters unveils a complex culture of discretion in which Freemasons reveal some truths and hide others. Female initiates—one of Freemasonry’s best-kept secrets—are often upper class and highly educated, yet avowedly antifeminist. Their self-cultivation through the Masonic path is an effort to embrace the deeply gendered ideals of fraternity. In this lively investigation, Mahmud unravels the contradictions at the heart of Freemasonry: an organization responsible for many of the egalitarian concepts of the Enlightenment and yet one that has always been, and in Italy still remains, extremely exclusive. The result is not only a thrilling look at a surprisingly influential world, but a reevaluation of the modern values we now take for granted
Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135455309
Total Pages : 2256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies written by Gaetana Marrone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 2256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.
