Marriage A La Mode

Author : John Dryden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144268

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Marriage A-La-Mode by John Dryden Pdf

Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession, Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful tragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas has to struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne of Sicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot, written in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in London drawing-rooms than at the Sicilian court) play at switching partners in the 'modern' style. The introduction of this edition argues that Dryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whom he came to rely more on more for patronage, manifests itself in both plots; most of all perhaps in the excessively Francophile Melantha, whose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre.

Author : Katherine Mansfield
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443439732

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Marriage A La Mode by Katherine Mansfield Pdf

William’s heart aches. The pleasure he finds in his work is only a temporary distraction from the pain of being separated from his family, especially his wife. Every Saturday he takes the train down to the new house, full of new servants and Isabel’s Bohemian friends. It’s true that they needed a larger house. And he doesn’t really begrudge her the servants. But the extraordinary thing is that he’d never guessed she was so unhappy. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : Shelley Tobin,Sarah Pepper,Margaret Willes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106016143411

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Marriage À la Mode by Shelley Tobin,Sarah Pepper,Margaret Willes Pdf

This book traces the development of wedding attire from the silver and white brocades of eighteenth-century formal, aristocratic weddings to the elegant crinoline revival of the late 1950s. Whenever possible, Shelley Tobin focuses on gowns and accessories where she can trace the provenance of the wearer, or the maker, to provide a social history of the past 300 years. The accoutrements of the brides reflected the luxury trades of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but it was not until the 1850s that the white wedding became an established tradition. Even then, it was not available to everyone. Although formal, the wedding gown followed fashion and was often recycled as a suitable dress for the first presentation at court as a married woman. Wedding veils, if not passed down through the family, might also be used in another form, particularly as christening robes during the early twentieth century. The trend for producing costume dramas for stage and screen (e.g., Sense and Sensibility directed by Ang Lee, 1995) has seen the recreation of a number of period styles, and these in turn have influenced today's deigners.

Author : Rachelle Edwards
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0449003418

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Marriage a la Mode by Rachelle Edwards Pdf

It was a scandal, indeed! Lucian Carisbrooke, the nonpareil of every woman's dreams, is involved with Miss Arabella Trentham's own relation. But when Kitty Polstead, Society's most incomparable hostess, decides she is tired of Lucian's attentions, Arabella is dispatched to break the bad news. Yet Lucian desires revenge--and his retaliation involves a marriage to Arabella!

Author : John Dryden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1691
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:165937874

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Marriage-a-la-mode, a comedy by John Dryden Pdf

Author : Katie Roiphe
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780440337034

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Uncommon Arrangements by Katie Roiphe Pdf

Katie Roiphe’s stimulating work has made her one of the most talked about cultural critics of her generation. Now this bracing young writer delves deeply into one of the most layered of subjects: marriage. Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, here are seven “marriages à la mode”—each rising to the challenge of intimate relations in more or less creative ways. Jane Wells, the wife of H.G., remained his rock, despite his decade-long relationship with Rebecca West (among others). Katherine Mansfield had an irresponsible, childlike romance with her husband, John Middleton Murry, that collapsed under the strain of real-life problems. Vera Brittain and George Gordon Catlin spent years in a “semidetached” marriage (he in America, she in England). Vanessa Bell maintained a complicated harmony with the painter Duncan Grant, whom she loved, and her husband, Clive. And her sister Virginia Woolf, herself no stranger to marital particularities, sustained a brilliant running commentary on the most intimate details of those around her. Every chapter revolves around a crisis that occurred in each of these marriages—as serious as life-threatening illness or as seemingly innocuous as a slightly tipsy dinner table conversation—and how it was resolved…or not resolved. In these portraits, Roiphe brilliantly evokes what are, as she says, “the fluctuations and shifts in attraction, the mysteries of lasting affection, the endurance and changes in love, and the role of friendship in marriage.” The deeper mysteries at stake in all relationships.

Author : Robert L. S. Cowley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0719008840

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Marriage A-la-mode by Robert L. S. Cowley Pdf

Studie over het werk van de Engelse schilder William Hogarth (1697-1764).

Author : Robert L. S. Cowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017546246

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Hogarth's Marriage À-la-mode by Robert L. S. Cowley Pdf

The publication of a series of Hogarth's prints was an eagerly awaited event in the 1730s and 1740s, and Marriage A-la-mode was one of the most popular of the great satirist's creations. The particular appeal of these six prints lay in their ingenious depictions of and sardonic comments on a multitude of common iniquities--among them foppery, quackery, xenophobia, arranged marriage, irresponsible parenthood, and a morbid fashion of suicide. Robert L. S. Cowley studies the series in depth, focusing on Hogarth's characteristic ability to tell a story in visual terms.

Author : Ernest Hemingway,William Faulkner
Publisher : Dell
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1954-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440378648

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Short Story Masterpieces by Ernest Hemingway,William Faulkner Pdf

Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time. A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence Barn Burning by William Faulkner The Sojourner by Carson McCullers The Open Window by Saki Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter The Boarding House by James Joyce Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty . . . and twenty-five more of the century’s best stories!

Author : Elizabeth Einberg
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300221746

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William Hogarth by Elizabeth Einberg Pdf

William Hogarth (1697-1764) was among the first British-born artists to rise to international recognition and acclaim and to this day he is considered one of the country's most celebrated and innovative masters. His output encompassed engravings, paintings, prints, and editorial cartoons that presaged western sequential art. This comprehensive catalogue of his paintings brings together over twenty years of scholarly research and expertise on the artist, and serves to highlight the remarkable diversity of his accomplishments in this medium. Portraits, history paintings, theater pictures, and genre pieces are lavishly reproduced alongside detailed entries on each painting, including much previously unpublished material relating to his oeuvre. This deeply informed publication affirms Hogarth's legacy and testifies to the artist's enduring reputation. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Author : William Hogarth
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486317168

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Engravings by Hogarth by William Hogarth Pdf

Rake's Progress, Harlot's Progress, Illustrations for Hudibras, Before and After, Beer Street, and Gin Lane, 96 more. Commentary by Sean Shesgreen.

Author : David Bindman
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500776315

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Hogarth by David Bindman Pdf

Hogarth was one of the great 18th-century painters, a marvellous colourist and innovator at all levels of artistic expression. Art historian David Bindman surveys the works of this artist whose wry humour and sharp wit were reflected in his prolific paintings and prints including The Rakes Progress and Marriage-A-la-Mode. Hogarth was also a master of pictorial satire, highlighting the moral and political hypocrisies of the day with delightful detail and comedy themes that resonate deeply with our times. The artist was a keen observer of class and society; this new edition has been specially updated to include a discussion of Hogarths many representations of Black people in 18th-century Britain, a subject that has long been overlooked. Now revised with additional material and illustrated in colour throughout, this is a vivid and incisive study of the man and his art.

Author : Catherine Ostler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982179755

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The Duchess Countess by Catherine Ostler Pdf

Discover the adventurous life of the stylish and scandalous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston—a woman whose infamous trial was bigger news in British society than the American War of Independence. “Bridgerton fans take note: For sheer incident and drama, Chudleigh’s story rivals any episode of the popular Regency-era Netflix series. And it’s all true” (The Washington Post). As maid of honor to the Princess of Wales, Elizabeth Chudleigh enjoyed a luxurious life in the inner circle of the Hanoverian court. With her extraordinary style and engaging wit, she both delighted and scandalized the press and public. She would later even inspire William Thackeray when he was writing his classic Vanity Fair, providing the inspiration for the alluring social climber Becky Sharp. But Elizabeth’s real story is more complex and surprising than anything out of fiction. A clandestine, candlelit wedding to the young heir to an earldom, a second marriage to a duke, a lust for diamonds, and an electrifying appearance at a masquerade ball in a gossamer dress—it’s no wonder that Elizabeth’s eventual trial was a sensation. Charged with bigamy, an accusation she vehemently fought against, Elizabeth refused to submit to public humiliation and retire quietly. “A superb, gripping, decadent, colorful biography that brings an extraordinary woman and a whole world blazingly to life” (Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author), The Duchess Countess is perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Women of Means, and The Crown.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141961781

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Difficulties With Girls by Kingsley Amis Pdf

In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they think. It is not long before they realize their respectability will be severely tested by seductive neighbours with a taste for whisky, the sexually confused Ted Valentine, and the literary set of Hampstead. In this funny and provocative study of a young couple growing up, Amis shows us that the difficulty with marriage is that it's so hard to preserve, especially when Patrick and Jenny harbour deep yearnings for a different kind of life. Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.

Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674065567

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The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy Pdf

In Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century.