A Sweet View

Author : Malcolm Andrews
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789144970

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A Sweet View by Malcolm Andrews Pdf

From country lanes to thatch roofs, a stroll through the enduring appeal of the nineteenth-century trope of rural English bliss. A Sweet View explores how writers and artists in the nineteenth century shaped the English countryside as a partly imaginary idyll, with its distinctive repertoire of idealized scenery: the village green, the old country churchyard, hedgerows and cottages, scenic variety concentrated into a small compass, snugness and comfort. The book draws on a very wide range of contemporary sources and features some of the key makers of the “South Country” rural idyll, including Samuel Palmer, Myles Birket Foster, and Richard Jefferies. The legacy of the idyll still influences popular perceptions of the essential character of a certain kind of English landscape—indeed for Henry James that imagery constituted “the very essence of England” itself. As A Sweet View makes clear, the countryside idyll forged over a century ago is still with us today.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300014294

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Emma by Jane Austen Pdf

Author : Pam Morris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Realism in literature
ISBN : 9781474423533

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Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism by Pam Morris Pdf

Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. 'Things' in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and the physical world. This radical redistribution of the importance of material objects and biological existence, challenges the traditional idealist hierarchy of mind over matter that has justified gender, class and race subordination. Entering their writing careers at the critical moments of the French Revolution and the First World War respectively, and sharing a political inheritance of Scottish Enlightenment scepticism, Austen's and Woolf's rigorous critiques of the dangers of mental vision unchecked by facts is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist neo-liberal, religious and nationalist belief systems.

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108421638

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The Unmasking of English Dictionaries by R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

This book argues that a dictionary should show when to use one word rather than another, instead of treating each word separately.

Author : James Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017391389

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The Evening Sacrifice; Or, a Help to Devotion by James Smith Pdf

Author : Anna Burton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000367614

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Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction by Anna Burton Pdf

This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century. Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel identifies the picturesque thinker William Gilpin as a significant influence in this literary and environmental tradition. Remarks on Forest Scenery (1791) is formed by Gilpin’s own observations of trees, forests, and his New Forest home specifically; but it is also the product of tree-stories collected from ‘travellers and historians’ that came before him. This study tracks the impact of this accumulating arboreal discourse upon nineteenth-century environmental writers such as John Claudius Loudon, Jacob George Strutt, William Howitt, and Mary Roberts, and its influence on varied dialogues surrounding natural history, agriculture, landscaping, deforestation, and public health. Building upon this concept of an ongoing silvicultural discussion, the monograph examines how novelists in the realist mode engage with this discourse and use their understanding of arboreal space and its cultural worth in order to transform their own fictional environments. Through their novelistic framing of single trees, clumps, forests, ancient woodlands, and man-made plantations, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Thomas Hardy feature as authors of particular interest. Collectively, in their environmental representations, these novelists engage with a broad range of silvicultural conversation in their writing of space at the beginning, middle, and end of the nineteenth century. This book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and academics working in the environmental humanities, long nineteenth-century literature, nature writing and environmental literature, environmental history, ecocriticism, and literature and science scholarship.

Author : John MACKENZIE (Minister at Preston.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019175173

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Fragments of the experience of J. M'Kenzie ... selected from his own papers. [Edited by J. C. Philpot]. by John MACKENZIE (Minister at Preston.) Pdf

Author : Karen Valihora
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780874130829

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Austen's Oughts by Karen Valihora Pdf

The word is all over Jane Austen's novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought to feel (versus how one does feel). When Austen's characters employ an ought, the delicate oscillation between first-and third-person perspectives that marks her prose leads the reader to distinguish between what they say, and what they ought, according to a morally idealized, third-person calculus to mean. But what is the context of this ought? This book situates the disinterested, reflective appeal to moral principle invoked ironically or otherwise in Austen's oughts within the history of thought about judgment in the British eighteenth century. Beginning with Shaftesbury's critique of Locke's account of judgment, successive readings explore the emphasis on disinterest in works by David Hume, Adam Smith, Samuel Richardson, and Sir Joshua Reynolds alongside discussions of Jane Austen's major novels.

Author : Colin Jager
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812246643

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Unquiet Things by Colin Jager Pdf

In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was privatized and depoliticized. If the discretionary nature of religious practice permitted spiritual freedom and social differentiation, however, secular arrangements produced new anxieties. Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures and their expression in works by Jane Austen, Horace Walpole, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley among others. Emphasizing secularism rather than religion as its primary analytic category, Unquiet Things demonstrates that literary writing possesses a distinctive ability to register the discontent that characterizes the mood of secular modernity. Colin Jager places Romantic-era writers within the context of a longer series of transformations begun in the Reformation, and identifies three ways in which romanticism and secularism interact: the melancholic mood brought on by movements of reform, the minoritizing capacity of literature to measure the disturbances produced by new arrangements of state power, and a prospective romantic thinking Jager calls "after the secular." The poems, novels, and letters of the romantic period reveal uneasy traces of the spiritual past, haunted by elements that trouble secular politics; at the same time, they imagine new and more equitable possibilities for the future. In the twenty-first century, Jager contends, we are still living within the terms of the romantic response to secularism, when literature and philosophy first took account of the consequences of modernity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013746881

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The Morning Watch by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Duff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191019715

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The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the Romantic movement, pinpointing its different historical phases and analysing the intellectual and political currents which shaped them. It gives particular attention to devolutionary trends, exploring the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish strands in 'British' Romanticism and assessing the impact of the constitutional changes that brought into being the 'United Kingdom' at a time of revolutionary turbulence and international conflict. It also gives extensive coverage to the publishing and reception history of Romantic writing, highlighting the role of readers, reviewers, publishers, and institutions in shaping Romantic literary culture and transmitting its ideas and values. Divided into ten sections, each containing four or five chapters, the Handbook covers key themes and concepts in Romantic studies as well as less chartered topics such as freedom of speech, literature and drugs, Romantic oratory, and literary uses of dialect. All the major male and female Romantic authors are included along with numerous lesser-known writers, the emphasis throughout being on the diversity of Romantic writing and the complexities and internal divisions of the culture that sustained it. The volume strikes a balance between familiarity and novelty to provide an accessible guide to current thinking and a conceptual reorganization of this fast-moving field.

Author : Rod Giblett
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781841505046

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People and Places of Nature and Culture by Rod Giblett Pdf

Using the rich and vital Australian Aboriginal understanding of country as a model, People and Places of Nature and Culture affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between nature and culture. While current thought includes the mistaken notion—perpetuated by natural history, ecology, and political economy—that humans have a mastery over the Earth, this book demonstrates the problems inherent in this view. In the current age of climate change, this is an important appraisal of the relationship between nature and culture, and a projection of what needs to change if we want to achieve environmental stability.

Author : Rev. Thomas JONES (Rector of Great Creaton.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019325199

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Jonah's Portrait; or, various views of human nature, and of the gracious dealings of God with fallen man. ... To which is added a brief account of the first circumstances which led to the formation of the Bible Society by Rev. Thomas JONES (Rector of Great Creaton.) Pdf

Author : Laura Thayer
Publisher : Moon Travel
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781640490369

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Moon Amalfi Coast by Laura Thayer Pdf

From the pastel rooftops of Positano to the soaring peak of Monte Solaro, immerse yourself in la dolce vita with Moon Amalfi Coast. Inside you'll find: Flexible itineraries for spending 1 to 5 days in different spots along the Amalfi Coast, including Sorrento, Capri, Naples, and more, that can be combined for a longer trip Strategic advice for foodies, art lovers, hikers, history buffs, beach bums, and more Must-see highlights and unique experiences: Swim in turquoise waters, relax on sun-soaked beaches, or hop on a boat and cruise past cliffs, coves, and secret caves. Go underground to see ancient ruins in Naples or climb the towers of medieval castles. Take a day trip to Pompeii and hike to the top of Mount Vesuvius, ride a chairlift to the top of Monte Solaro, or unwind in the natural hot springs that dot the island of Ischia The best local flavors: Stroll quiet village streets where the scent of Sunday ragu fills the air, feast on fresh seafood steps from the Mediterranean, sip local limoncello on a sunny terrace, and chow down on authentic Neapolitan pizza Honest suggestions from Amalfi local Laura Thayer on where to stay, where to eat, and how to get around Full-color photos and detailed maps throughout Background information on the landscape, history, and cultural customs of the Amalfi Coast Handy tools including an Italian phrasebook and tips for seniors and traveling with children With Moon Amalfi Coast's practical tips and local insight on the best things to do and see, you can experience the best of the Amalfi Coast. Exploring more of Italy? Check out Moon Milan & the Italian Lakes or Moon Rome, Florence & Venice.

Author : Benjamin Wickens,George Frost,Maria Frost
Publisher : M Burgess
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781291131109

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A Memorial of Mr George Frost by Benjamin Wickens,George Frost,Maria Frost Pdf

George Frost was the much loved Pastor of Rehoboth Baptist Chapel in Jarvis Brook, East Sussex for 21 years until his death in 1904. This 'Memorial' was first published by Benjamin Wickens in 1906. It contains a brief account of Mr Frost's life written by his wife, as well as poems, the funeral sermon by Mr James Dickens of Rotherfield, some of Mr Frost's letters and four of his sermons. One of the sermons was an address given to the congregation of Christ Church, Crowborough Cross which was at the time a Free Church of England place of worship. The Church would invite ministers of various denominations to preach on Wednesday evenings on 'The second coming of Christ'. Mr Frost accepted the invitation on the basis that he would be allowed to preach in accordance with his own faith and order. This book has been reprinted as a facsimile of the original.