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Author : James Lackington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the First Forty-five Years of James Lackington (1794). written by James Lackington and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dino Franco Felluga
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483975
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Perversity of Poetry written by Dino Franco Felluga and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, "Poetry makes nothing happen." In The Perversity of Poetry, Dino Franco Felluga explores the cultural background of poetry's marginalization by examining nineteenth-century reactions to Romantic poetry and ideology. Focusing on the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as periodical reviews, student manuals, and contemporary medical journals, the book details the period's two contending (and equally outrageous) claims regarding poetry. Scott's poetry, on the one hand, was continually represented as a panacea for a modern world overtaken by new principles of utilitarianism, capitalism, industrialism, and democracy. Byron's, by contrast, was represented either as a cancer in the heart of the social order or as a contagious pandemic leading to various pathological symptoms. The book concludes with a coda on Alfred Lord Tennyson, which illustrates how the Victorian reception of Scott and Byron affected the most popular poetic genius of midcentury. Ultimately, The Perversity of Poetry uncovers how the shift to a rhetoric of health allowed critics to oppose what they perceived as a potent and potentially dangerous influence on the age, the very thing that would over the course of the century be marginalized into such obscurity: poetry, thanks to its perverse insistence on making something happen.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393048728
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (487 download)
Download or read book The Creation of the Modern World written by Roy Porter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a critically acclaimed author comes an engagingly written and groundbreaking new work that highlights the long-underestimated British role in delivering the Enlightenment to the modern world. Porter reveals how the monumental transformation of thinking in Great Britain influenced wider developments elsewhere. of color illustrations.
Author : Michael Mascuch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745667732
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Origins of the Individualist Self written by Michael Mascuch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal of the nature of autobiographical narrative in general and of the early modern forms of biography, diary and autobiography in particular. The result is a significant and original contribution to the history of individualism. Michael Mascuch argues that the definitive characteristic of individualist self-identity is the personal capacity to produce a unified retrospective autobiographical narrative, and he stresses that this capacity was first demonstrated in England during the last decade of the eighteenth century. He examines the long-term process of innovation in written discourse leading up to this event, from the first use of blank almanacs and common place books by the pious in the late sixteenth century, through the popular criminal biographies of the late seventeenth century, to the printed-for-the-author scandalous memoirs of the mid-eighteenth century. While offering a detailed account of a significant period in the rise of a modern literary genre, Origins of the Individualist Self also addresses topics which are central in the fields of literary and cultural theory and social and cultural history.
Author : Frederick G. Kilgour
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190283653
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of the Book written by Frederick G. Kilgour and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of interest in the growth of information technology, Kilgour brings a fresh approach to the history of the book, emphasizing in rich, authoritative detail the successive technological advances that allowed the book to keep pace with ever-increasing needs for information. Borrowing a concept from evolutionary theory--the notion of punctuated equilibria--to structure his account, Kilgour investigates the book's three discrete historical forms--the clay tablet, papyrus roll, and codex--before turning to a fourth, still evolving form, the cyber book, a version promising swift electronic delivery of information in text, sound, and motion to anyone at any time. The clay tablet, initially employed as a content descriptor for sacks of grain, proved inadequate to the growing need for commercial and administrative records. Its successor the papyrus roll was itself succeeded by the codex, a format whose superior utility and information capacity led to sweeping changes in the management of accumulated knowledge, the pursuit of learning, and the promulgation of religion. Kilgour throughout considers closely both technological change and the role this change played in cultural transformation. His fascinating account of the modern book, from Gutenberg's invention of cast-type printing five hundred years ago to the arrival of books displayed on a computer screen, spotlights the inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs who in creating the machinery of production and dissemination enabled the book to maintain its unique cultural power over time. Deft, provocative, and accessibly written, The Evolution of the Book will captivate book lovers as well as those interested in bibliographic history, the history of writing, and the history of technology.
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Lee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sidney Lee and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James LACKINGTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington ... Eighth edition. Corrected and much enlarged, etc written by James LACKINGTON and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanne Bailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191623717
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Parenting in England 1760-1830 written by Joanne Bailey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenting in England is the first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England. The author, Joanne Bailey, traces ideas about parenthood in a Christian society that was responding to new cultural trends of sensibility, romanticism and domesticity, along with Enlightenment ideas about childhood and self. All these shaped how people, from the poor to the genteel, thought about themselves as parents, and remembered their own parents. With meticulous attention to detail, Bailey illuminates the range of intense emotions provoked by parenthood by investigating a rich array of sources from memoirs and correspondence, to advice literature, fiction, and court records, to prints, engravings, and ballads. Parenting was also a profoundly embodied experience, and the book captures the effort, labour, and hard work it entailed. Such parental investment meant that the experience was fundamental to the forging of national, familial, and personal identities. It also needed more than two parents and this book uncovers the hitherto hidden world of shared parenting. At all levels of society, household and kinship ties were drawn upon to lighten the labours of parenting. By revealing these emotional and material parental worlds, what emerges is the centrality of parenthood to mental and physical well-being, reputation, public and personal identities, and to transmitting prized values across generations. Yet being a parent was a contingent experience adapting from hour to hour, year to year, and child to child. It was at once precarious, as children and parents succumbed to fatal diseases and accidents, yet it was also enduring because parent-child relationships were not ended by death: lost children and parents lived on in memory.
Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108698786
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Rare Books written by David McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same today. In a world that many people found to be over-supplied with books, the invention of rare books was a process of selection. As books are one of the principal means of memory, this process also created particular kinds of remembering. Taking a European perspective, McKitterick looks at these interests as they developed from being matters of largely private concern and curiosity, to the larger public and national responsibilities of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author : Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199292257
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (922 download)
Download or read book A Foot in the Past written by Giorgio Riello and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Enlightenment, in a society that was increasingly urbanised and mobile, footwear was an essential item of apparel. This book considers not only the practical but also the symbolic meaning of footwear in France and England during the period from the end of the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century.
Author : M. O. Grenby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196442
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Child Reader, 1700-1840 written by M. O. Grenby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major study of child readers and their reading habits in the period when children's literature first became established.
Author : Clarke Garrett
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801859236
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Spirit Possession and Popular Religion written by Clarke Garrett and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-04-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakers emerge as the culmination of the century's religious quest, preserving the immediacy of spirit possession while making it the basis for the formation of an ideal Christian community.Originally published as Spirit Possession and Popular Religion: From the Comisards to the Shakers
Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521308021
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872 written by David McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press covering the 1690s to 1872.
Author : Ian Haywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521835466
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (354 download)
Download or read book The Revolution in Popular Literature written by Ian Haywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a new look at the evolution of popular literature in Britain in the Romantic and Victorian periods. Making use of a wide range of archival and primary sources, he argues that radical politics played a decisive role in the transformation of popular literature. By charting the key moments in the history of 'cheap' literature, the book casts new light on the many neglected popular genres and texts: the 'pig's meat' anthology, the female-authored didactic tale, and Chartist fiction.
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (463 download)
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Dickie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614254X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Cruelty and Laughter written by Simon Dickie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain, this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals, variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.
