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Author : John Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1787
Category : Europe
ISBN : BAB:1006569676
Author : John Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1787
Category : Europe
ISBN : NYPL:33433082462254
Author : John Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1588401162
Facsimilie reprint (1787), computer scanned and enhanced, quality very good, attractive cover with 10mm. clear plastic cover sheet, plastic comb bound, xxvipp./209pp., very rare book.
Author : John Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1297696239
Author : John Pinkerton
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230195777
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. The real origin, and first progress, of the Scythians or Goths: and their Eastern Settlements., WE have already seen that the Scythian Empire, in present Persia, is the most ancient of which history has preserved any memorial. This very curious subject shall not be here enlarged on, but is left to some future Historian of the Scythians. This empire seems to have extended from Egypt to the Ganges; and from the Persian gulf, and Indian sea, to the Caspian. The conquests of Bacchus, reputed a king of this Scythian dominion, in India, are famous in antiquity: he introduced the vine, or the use of wine, into his dominions, and was deified as the god of wine by his subjects. The bacchanalian feasts of the Thracians, and other Scythae, are noted by classic authors; and from the Thracians they are mentioned to have past to the Greeks. The wine of barley, ale, supplied the want of the grape; and Bacchus retained his honours. Buty to enter more certain ground, the real Scythians of this original empire seem to have been bounded by the Euphrates on the west, and the Indus on the east. The Arabians, Syrians, &c. were certainly nor Scythae. We find Indo-Scythae on the Indus, and other remains on the Erythraean sea: but none beyond the Indo-Scythae. On the north the original Scythae extended to the Caspian. Due jpowlege of this empire would remove those embarrassments barraffments which the learned have fallen into, from ancient accounts of the wars between the Scythae and Egyptians, while Scythia On the Euxine is so remote from Egypt. Most of the ancient authors only knowing Scythia on the Euxine, as the early feat of the Scythae, have misrepresented some of those wars as carried on at such prodi
Author : Ffion Mair Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708322963
This volume approaches the fascinating figure of Iolo Morganwg – stonemason, poet and literary forger – from three distinct but interrelated angles. They all take as their starting point Iolo Morganwg’s ‘marginality’ within mainstream literary society both in London and in Wales and demonstrate the strategies that he used to overcome the frustrations of his situation. Iolo’s notoriety as a literary forger provides the context for the first discussion in the volume, which considers his efforts to pass on his own work as that of famous Welsh writers of the past. This chapter looks at how important the editorial apparatus with which Iolo surrounded his forgeries was to his attempt to ensure their satisfactory reception. Secondly, two collections of printed books owned by Iolo and containing marginal commentary in his hand are explored. The discussion here demonstrates Iolo’s keen interest in the forging of a path for the Welsh language within the developing public domain of the regional eisteddfodau and also his complex personal relations with some of the more successful authors of his day. Iolo’s vulnerability and marginality within the context of a Welsh public sphere are both brought to the fore in this chapter. Finally, the volume turns to the marginalia left by Iolo on letters within his collection of correspondence, showing his extraordinary creativity and bringing to attention for the first time some of his unpublished work in the fields of Welsh and English poetry and on matters relating to the Welsh language.
Author : Paul Stock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192533876
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.
Author : Emma Clery,Robert Miles
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0719040272
In the 1790s, while across the Channel a political revolution raged, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction that seemed to know no bounds. Ann Radcliffe and "Monk" Lewis were only the most celebrated of a host of writers purveying a new brand of "Gothic" literature. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? This is a landmark in the study of Gothic writing: nowhere else is the historical location of Gothic more richly or vividly illustrated.
Author : John Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000122540
Author : George Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Scotland
ISBN : NLS:B000099228
Author : Nathaniel Wolloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317121725
The mastery of nature was viewed by eighteenth-century historians as an important measure of the progress of civilization. Modern scholarship has hitherto taken insufficient notice of this important idea. This book discusses the topic in connection with the mainstream religious, political, and philosophical elements of Enlightenment culture. It considers works by Edward Gibbon, Voltaire, Herder, Vico, Raynal, Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, and a wide range of lesser- and better-known figures. It also discusses many classical, medieval, and early modern sources which influenced Enlightenment historiography, as well as eighteenth-century attitudes toward nature in general.
Author : Dale Townshend
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192584434
Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 provides the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction; poetry; drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the relationship between literature and architecture is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains, to date, no monograph-length study of the intriguing and complex interactions between these two aesthetic forms. Equally, Gothic literature has received only the most cursory of treatments in art-historical accounts of the early Gothic Revival in architecture, interiors, and design. In addressing this gap in contemporary scholarship, Gothic Antiquity seeks to situate Gothic writing in relation to the Gothic-architectural theories, aesthetics, and practices with which it was contemporary, providing closely historicized readings of a wide selection of canonical and lesser-known texts and writers. Correspondingly, it shows how these architectural debates responded to, and were to a certain extent shaped by, what we have since come to identify as the literary Gothic mode. In both its 'survivalist' and 'revivalist' forms, the architecture of the Middle Ages in the long eighteenth century was always much more than a matter of style. Incarnating, for better or for worse, the memory of a vanished 'Gothic' age in the modern, enlightened present, Gothic architecture, be it ruined or complete, prompted imaginative reconstructions of the nation's past—a notable 'visionary' turn, as the antiquary John Pinkerton put it in 1788, in which Gothic writers, architects, and antiquaries enthusiastically participated. The volume establishes a series of dialogues between Gothic literature, architectural history, and the antiquarian interest in the material remains of the Gothic past, and argues that these discrete yet intimately related approaches to vernacular antiquity are most fruitfully read in relation to one another.
Author : Glennis Byron,Dale Townshend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135053062
The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses. The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own ‘World’.
Author : George Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10225085
Author : George Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z18630690X