A Country Masquerade

Author : Margaret McGaffey Fisk
Publisher : TTO Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631390074

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A Country Masquerade by Margaret McGaffey Fisk Pdf

A sweet Regency romance for all ages. Lady Barbara Whitfeld’s dreams are shattered when she overhears a harsh condemnation from the one lord she’s set her heart on. If he thinks her frivolous then she’ll show Lord Aubrey St. Vincent just how frivolous she can be. Despite popularity with the ton, and the gossip an absence will provoke, Lady Barbara is banished to her uncle’s farm in the hopes she’ll learn maturity. Lord Aubrey believes in true love, but finds none among the season’s debutantes who provokes even the slightest interest. No one, that is, until Lady Barbara gives him a cut direct in Hyde Park. After fruitless searching, he learns she quit London before he could discover how he offended her. Lord Aubrey heads to the country to escape the season only to find himself drawn to a young farm girl, none other than Lady Barbara in country guise. Can Aubrey overcome his qualms about her unsuitability before Barbara’s plans to teach him a lesson destroy any chance they might have?

Author : Deborah Bell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786476466

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Masquerade by Deborah Bell Pdf

In its conventional meaning, masquerade refers to a festive gathering of people wearing masks and elegant costumes. But traditional forms of masquerade have evolved over the past century to include the representation of alternate identities in the media and venues of popular culture, including television, film, the internet, theater, museums, sports arenas, popular magazines and a range of community celebrations, reenactments and conventions. This collection of fresh essays examines the art and function of masquerade from a broad range of perspectives. From African slave masquerade in New World iconography, to the familiar Guy Fawkes masks of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to the branded identities created by celebrities like Madonna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga, the essays show how masquerade permeates modern life.

Author : Terry Castle
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804714681

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Masquerade and Civilization by Terry Castle Pdf

Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.

Author : Lord Frederick Hamilton,Sidney Daryl,George Roland Halkett,Charles Robert Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015006970068

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The Pall Mall Magazine by Lord Frederick Hamilton,Sidney Daryl,George Roland Halkett,Charles Robert Morley Pdf

Author : Jude Deveraux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471135569

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Moonlight Masquerade by Jude Deveraux Pdf

After being abruptly jilted, Sophie Kincaid flees to the place her friend Kim Aldredge calls heaven on earth. But Sophie's first taste of Edilean is far from heavenly: after her car breaks down on a country road, she is nearly run over by a speeding sports car. A small act of revenge brings some satisfaction, and word quickly spreads that a gorgeous newcomer gave the driver, the notoriously bitter Dr. Reede Aldredge, a dressing down! But it isn't the first time the fiery artist has gone too far for payback; a secret possession she carries with her could shatter her ex-boyfriend's future. Reede Aldredge has secrets, too, including a desire to get closer to the beauty who is turning his dark world upside-down. Under the night skies, their masquerade is magic-but will it turn to stardust by the light of day?

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : UCAL:B3545215

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Boswell's Life of Johnson by James Boswell Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000115313052

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Life of Johnson ... by James Boswell Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400862122

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The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II by Samuel Johnson Pdf

The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in expurgated form. The Hyde Edition is also the first systematically to record substantive deletions, which can yield intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits, and chains of association. Furthermore, its ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands during the last four decades. Finally, the annotation of the letters incorporates the many significant discoveries of postwar Johnsonian scholarship, as well as decoding references that had previously resisted explanation. The result is a far richer understanding of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and milieu. Originally published in 1992. 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081664892

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New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBR:KBR0000118724

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The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Pdf

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786561330183

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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death", Prince Prospero isolates himself and his wealthy guests to avoid a deadly plague. Despite his efforts to escape death, it invades his masked ball, proving that no one can escape fate.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590104136

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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. New eds. with notes and appendices by A. Napier. [Followed by] Johnsoniana, ed. by R. Napier by James Boswell Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10064128

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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : NYPL:33433082376272

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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600006455

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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker by James Boswell Pdf