Athenaeum

Author : Michael Wheeler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300256338

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The Athenaeum by Michael Wheeler Pdf

A compelling history of the famous London club and its members’ impact on Britain’s scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenæum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated the agenda. The club, with its tradition of hospitality to conflicting views, has attracted leading scientists, writers, artists, and intellectuals throughout its history, including Charles Darwin and Matthew Arnold, Edward Burne-Jones and Yehudi Menuhin, Winston Churchill and Gore Vidal. This book is not presented in the traditional, insular style of club histories, but devotes attention to the influence of Athenians on the scientific, creative, and official life of the nation. From the unwitting recruitment of a Cold War spy to the welcome admittance of women, this lively and original account explores the corridors and characters of the club; its wider political, intellectual, and cultural influence; and its recent reinvention.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Arts
ISBN : PRNC:32101077276507

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The Athenaeum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000145191

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The Athenaeum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English philology
ISBN : IND:30000153404698

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Übersicht über die im Jahre ... auf dem Gebiete der englischen Philologie erschienenen Bücher, Schriften und Aufsätze by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathleen Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781351106870

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Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum by Kathleen Davidson Pdf

The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship between natural history and photography from the 1850s to the 1880s in Britain and its colonies: Australia, New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, India. Coinciding with the rise of the modern museum, photography’s arrival was timely, and it rapidly became an essential technology for recording and publicising rare objects and valuable collections. Also during this period, the medium assumed a more significant role in the professional practices and reputations of naturalists than has been previously recognized, and it figured increasingly within the expanding specialized networks that were central to the production and dissemination of new knowledge. In an interrogation that ranges from the first forays into museum photography and early attempts to document collecting expeditions to the importance of traditional and photographic portraiture for the recognition of scientific discoveries, this book not only recasts the parameters of what we actually identify as natural history photography in the Victorian era but also how we understand the very structure of empire in relation to this genre at that time.

Author : Patricia Diane Rigg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133012224

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Julia Augusta Webster by Patricia Diane Rigg Pdf

Augusta Webster (as she was known) published one novel, many reviews and several books of poetry, including verse plays, in the last four decades of the 19th century. An activist in social causes, she fought for women's suffrage in England; as a member of the London school Board, she championed the cause of the poor who could not pay for their children's education. Though appreciated by writers and reviewers of her day, Webster's work did not sell well and went out of print soon after her death. Because today her ironic aesthetic philosophical stance, focusing on the pain and brevity of life and avoiding moral judgment, seems current, literary critics have begun to explore her work. This biographical critical study reveals plentiful research in primary documents, letters, school board minutes, newspapers, and periodicals provides a good introduction to Webster and her work. Rigg (Acadia Univ.) writes well, and she shows considerable critical acumen with appropriate reference to the limited literature on Webster. Rigg makes some surprising gaffes, such as failure to recognize the Spenserian stanza. But the real difficulty this study faces is Webster's obscurity, which means the audience for this book will be limited.

Author : Jack Morrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315445069

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Routledge Revivals: John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science (2005) by Jack Morrell Pdf

First published in 2005, this book represents the first full length biography of John Phillips, one of the most remarkable and important scientists of the Victorian period. Adopting a broad chronological approach, this book not only traces the development of Phillips’ career but clarifies and highlights his role within Victorian culture, shedding light on many wider themes. It explores how Phillips’ love of science was inseparable from his need to earn a living and develop a career which could sustain him. Hence questions of power, authority, reputation and patronage were central to Phillips’ career and scientific work. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and a rich body of recent writings on Victorian science, this biography brings together his personal story with the scientific theories and developments of the day, and fixes them firmly within the context of wider society.

Author : Boston Athenaeum,Stanley Ellis Cushing,David Bernard Dearinger
Publisher : Boston Athenaeum Library
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015067650591

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Acquired Tastes by Boston Athenaeum,Stanley Ellis Cushing,David Bernard Dearinger Pdf

A stunning commemoration of 200 years of collecting, study, and debate at this venerable Boston institution

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCBK:C084557481

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Memoir by Anonim Pdf

Author : Washington Allston
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813117089

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The Correspondence of Washington Allston by Washington Allston Pdf

This volume offers a fuller picture of Allston's life than any other biography yet published. It also contains descriptions of all his artistic productions and writings, and citations to all the books he owned. In the notes, his paintings and writings--which are vitally related--are for the first time collated.

Author : Blanche M. Gangwere
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313072826

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Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1520-1550 by Blanche M. Gangwere Pdf

This annotated chronology of western music is the third in a series of outlines on the history of music in western civilization. It contains a 120-page annotated bibliography, followed by a detailed, documented outline that is divided into ten chapters. Each chapter is written in chronological order with every line being documented by means of abbreviations that refer to the annotated bibliography. There are short biographies of the theorists and detailed discussions of their works. The information on music is organized by classes of music rather than by composer. Also included are lists of manuscripts with descriptions of their contents and notations as to where they may be found. The material for the outline has been taken from primary and secondary sources along with articles from periodicals. Like the other two volumes in this series, Music History from the Late Roman through the Gothic Periods, 313-1425 and Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1425-1520, this volume will be an important research tool for anyone interested in music history.

Author : Thelma Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Libraries
ISBN : IND:30000094742875

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Contributions to American Library History by Thelma Eaton Pdf

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Irving Massey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008386297

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Posthumous Poems of Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Irving Massey Pdf

Author : Gregory Nobles
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293845

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John James Audubon by Gregory Nobles Pdf

John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the most adulated artists of his time, and America's first celebrity scientist. In this fresh approach to Audubon's art and science, Gregory Nobles shows us that Audubon's greatest creation was himself. A self-made man incessantly striving to secure his place in American society, Audubon made himself into a skilled painter, a successful entrepreneur, and a prolific writer, whose words went well beyond birds and scientific description. He sought status with the "gentlemen of science" on both sides of the Atlantic, but he also embraced the ornithology of ordinary people. In pursuit of popular acclaim in art and science, Audubon crafted an expressive, audacious, and decidedly masculine identity as the "American Woodsman," a larger-than-life symbol of the new nation, a role he perfected in his quest for transatlantic fame. Audubon didn't just live his life; he performed it. In exploring that performance, Nobles pays special attention to Audubon's stories, some of which—the murky circumstances of his birth, a Kentucky hunting trip with Daniel Boone, an armed encounter with a runaway slave—Audubon embellished with evasions and outright lies. Nobles argues that we cannot take all of Audubon's stories literally, but we must take them seriously. By doing so, we come to terms with the central irony of Audubon's true nature: the man who took so much time and trouble to depict birds so accurately left us a bold but deceptive picture of himself.

Author : John Caldwell,Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque,Dale T. Johnson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1 by John Caldwell,Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque,Dale T. Johnson Pdf