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Author : Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009392983
The forgotten story of two British expeditions to Africa that went disastrously wrong and left a hidden legacy.
Author : Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009393034
The British sent two large expeditions to Africa in 1816, one to follow the Niger River to its outlet, the other to trace the Congo River to its source. The forgotten story of their disastrous failures is a revealing case study of the hubris that spurred the exploration of Africa.
Author : Laurence Talairach
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030725273
Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century—be they alive, stuffed or fossilised—and the development of children’s literature at this time. Children’s literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children’s writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children’s literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.
Author : Rodney Edgecombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443807562
Edwin Morgan was born in 1920 in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow University where he later taught literature. He is much admired for his experimental writings, his ‘social’ poems, as well as for the diversity of his output. The present book comprises a chapter on Morgan’s early vision poems (which have received scant critical attention hitherto); two on his hodoiporika, The Cape of Good Hope and The New Divan; a chapter on his deployment of the grotesque mode, centred chiefly on the Instamatic Poems and The Whittrick; another on his adaptations of the elegy, in which Edgecombe propose a new genre called the “thanasimon;” and, finally, an examination of his various monologic poems, read in terms of his avowed enterprise of “voicing” the universe. The study is topped by a prologue that sets out the consistency of Morgan’s vision over time, and tailed by an epilogue that connects his various critical pronouncements to his remarkably diverse output.
Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000938104
This book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called ‘World Cinema’ and, eventually, ‘Global Cinema.’ Kenneth W. Harrow explores how, from the time video and then digital technologies were introduced in the 1990s, and then again, when streaming platforms assumed major roles in producing and distributing film between the 2010s and 2020s, African cinema underwent enormous changes. He highlights how the introduction of the continent’s first successful commercial cinema, Nollywood, shifted the focus from engagé films, with social or political messages, to entertainment movies, but also auteur cinema. Harrow explores how this transformation liberated African filmmakers and resulted in an incredible, enduring flow of creative, inventive, and thoughtful filmmaking. This book presents a number of those critical films that mark that trajectory, projecting a new sense of African film spaces and temporalities, while also highlighting how African films continue to find independent pathways. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African cinema and world cinema, as well as researchers specifically examining African cinemas and their relationship to globalization.
Author : Nicholas Dickson,William Sanderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Scotland
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090326844
Author : D.L. Macdonald,Anne McWhir
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 1609 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781551110516
The selections from 132 authors in this anthology represent gender, social class, and racial and national origin as inclusively as possible, providing both greater context for canonical works and a sense of the era’s richness and diversity. In terms of genre, poetry, non-fiction prose, philosophy, educational writing, and prose fiction are included. Geographically, America, Canada, Australia, India, and Africa are represented along with Britain, emphasizing Romantic literature as a world literature. Biographical headnotes, explanatory footnotes, and an extensive bibliography clarify and illuminate the texts for readers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Northumberland (England)
ISBN : NYPL:33433075875330
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090321373
Author : Conger Beasley
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1557281300
-- 1991 Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Achievement
Author : Nora Crook,Pamela Clemit,Betty T Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000748840
These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume. Included in this edition are "Frankenstein" (1818), "Matilda" ((1819), "Valperga" (1823), "The Last Man" (1826), "Perkin Warbeck" (1830) and "Lodore" (1835).
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081662821
Author : Alex Gray
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780751555752
Discover your next reading obsession with this iconic first novel in Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves ***Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray. Book 20 in the Lorimer series, QUESTIONS FOR A DEAD MAN, is out now and Book 21, OUT OF DARKNESS, is available to pre-order.*** WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE LORIMER SERIES: 'Warm-hearted, atmospheric' ANN CLEEVES 'Relentless and intriguing' PETER MAY 'Move over Rebus' DAILY MAIL 'Exciting, pacey, authentic' ANGELA MARSONS 'Superior writing' THE TIMES 'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH _______________ When three young women are discovered strangled and mutilated in a Glasgow park, it is up to DCI Lorimer to find their killer. Frustrated by a lack of progress in the investigation, Lorimer is forced to enlist the services of Dr Solomon Brightman, psychologist and criminal profiler. Together they form an uneasy alliance. But when a homeless man is brought in for questioning the investigation takes a bizarre turn. Soon Lorimer has to scratch the surface of the polished Glasgow art world and reveal the dark layers hidden beneath...
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:4057664586865
Travel back in time and discover the origins of religion through the eyes of Andrew Lang, a prominent anthropologist of the late 19th century. In 'The Making of Religion', Lang challenges common beliefs about the development of the concept of God, revealing that it actually originated in the lowest-known grades of savagery. He argues that religion is a moral force that emerged as a means to enforce the laws of society, and that Christianity was born out of a purified Animism that complemented the exclusive Theism of Israel.
Author : John Ruskin,John Pincher Faunthorpe
Publisher : Orpington, Kent, Allen
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCAL:B3007836