On The Eighteenth Of May

Author : Jordan R. Samuel
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480889361

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On the Eighteenth of May by Jordan R. Samuel Pdf

On the evening of May eighteenth, a young woman named Cass walks alone into the small village of Chimney Rock, North Carolina, intending to stay for exactly one year. She is in search of somewhere with peace, a place where she can safely picture herself and escape, shielding herself from recollections of the past. Cass soon meets two precocious children, their mother, a caring and generous business owner, and the neighboring town’s chief of police. Family and loss make up many of their stories, and while these people and others attempt to get to know and help Cass, the history and troubled memories of what led her to this place begin to gradually unfold. As the date of her planned departure approaches, the potential for love and a path to healing become clearer. Cass and those around her must decide how forcefully they are willing to hold on: to the past, to the pain, and to the person. This novel examines the true test of strength in the deepest depths of sorrow and reminds us of the overwhelming power of comforting influences in all of our lives, as our human souls struggle, against all odds, to survive.

Author : Jordan R. Samuel
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480889361

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On the Eighteenth of May by Jordan R. Samuel Pdf

On the evening of May eighteenth, a young woman named Cass walks alone into the small village of Chimney Rock, North Carolina, intending to stay for exactly one year. She is in search of somewhere with peace, a place where she can safely picture herself and escape, shielding herself from recollections of the past. Cass soon meets two precocious children, their mother, a caring and generous business owner, and the neighboring town’s chief of police. Family and loss make up many of their stories, and while these people and others attempt to get to know and help Cass, the history and troubled memories of what led her to this place begin to gradually unfold. As the date of her planned departure approaches, the potential for love and a path to healing become clearer. Cass and those around her must decide how forcefully they are willing to hold on: to the past, to the pain, and to the person. This novel examines the true test of strength in the deepest depths of sorrow and reminds us of the overwhelming power of comforting influences in all of our lives, as our human souls struggle, against all odds, to survive.

Author : Plummer Alfred
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351341226

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Revival: The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century (1910) by Plummer Alfred Pdf

In a period of which so much is known, and of which the materials for additional knowledge are so abundant, as is the case with the eighteenth century, the writer of a handbook sees from the first that a very great deal, of even important matters, will have to be omitted: and one of his chief difficulties will be to decide which topics must be selected in order to give the reader an intelligible and coherent picture – faithful, as far as it goes – of the period as a whole.

Author : Roz Southey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351556781

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Music-Making in North-East England during the Eighteenth Century by Roz Southey Pdf

The north-east of England in the eighteenth century was a region where many different kinds of musical activity thrived and where a wide range of documentation survives. Such activities included concert-giving, teaching, tuning and composition, as well as music in the theatre and in church. Dr Roz Southey examines the impulses behind such activities and the meanings that local people found inherent in them. It is evident that music could be perceived or utilized for extremely diverse purposes; as entertainment, as a learned art, as an aid to piety, as a profession, a social facilitator and a support to patriotism and nationalism. Musical societies were established throughout the century, and Southey illustrates the social make-up of the members, as well as the role of Gentlemen Amateurs in the organizing of concerts, and the connections with London and other centres. The book draws upon a rich selection of source material, including local newspapers, council and ecclesiastical records, private papers and diaries and accounts of local tradesman, as well as surviving examples of music composed in the area by Charles Avison, Thomas Ebdon and John Garth of Durham, amongst many others. Charles Avison's importance is focused upon particularly, and his Essay on Musical Expression is considered alongside other contemporary writings of lesser fame. Southey provides a fascinating insight into the type and social class of audiences and their influence on the repertoire performed. The book moves from a consideration of music being used as a 'fashion item', evidenced by the patronage of 'big name' soloists from London and abroad, to fiddlers, ballad singers, music at weddings, funerals, public celebrations, and music for marking the events of the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. It can be seen, therefore, that the north east was an area of important musical activity, and that the music was always interwoven into the political, economic, religious and commercial fabric of eighteenth-century life.

Author : Peter H. Wilson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444303049

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A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe by Peter H. Wilson Pdf

This Companion contains 31 essays by leading internationalscholars to provide an overview of the key debates oneighteenth-century Europe. Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, andpolitical changes that took place throughout eighteenth-centuryEurope Focuses on Europe while placing it within its internationalcontext Considers not just major western European states, but also theoften neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe

Author : Alden Cavanaugh
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780874139709

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Performing the "everyday" by Alden Cavanaugh Pdf

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane as well as the heroic. Comprised of essays by established and emerging scholars of literature, art, and music history, the volume explores not merely the range of performances under the banner of the everyday, but also the meanings inherent in these attempts to create art out of the experience of the real. In this collection, the authors attempt to provide a wide-ranging picture of the many ways in which the notion of the everyday is a valuable conceptual frame through which the eighteenth century may be apprehended, as this critical term allows for issues of gender, race, and class to come into focus. Alden Cavanaugh is Associate Professor of Art History at Indiana State University.

Author : Roger Lonsdale
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191501425

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The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse by Roger Lonsdale Pdf

No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period's restraints and inhibitions.

Author : John Arthos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000031102

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The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry by John Arthos Pdf

Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of this period had been severely criticized for a long time. But in the twenty or thirty years prior to publication some effort had been made to review the subject and the problem. However, several questions still remained unanswered, and more exhaustive analysis needed to be undertaken. This volume was an effort to provide answers for some of these questions and to begin the analysis that was required.

Author : Sue Chaplin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351922609

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Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction by Sue Chaplin Pdf

This work offers, firstly, a fresh historical, philosophical and cultural interpretation of the relation between the eighteenth-century discourse of sensibility, the sublime, and the theory and practice of eighteenth-century law. Secondly, the work exposes and explores the influence of this combination of discourses upon the formation of gender identities in this period. The author argues that it is only through a study of the convergence of these key eighteenth-century discourses that changing conceptualisations of femininity can fully be understood. Thirdly, it examines the presence, within eighteenth-century fiction by women, of a new female subject. Novels by women in this period, Chaplin posits, begin to reveal that the female subject position constructed through the discourses of law, sensibility and the sublime gives rise, for women, to a feminine ontological crisis that may be seen to anticipate by two hundred years the trauma of the 'post modern' male subject unable to present a unified subjectivity to himself or to the world. This feminine crisis finds expression within a range of female fiction of the mid-to-late eighteenth century - in Charlotte Lennox's anti-romance satire, Frances Sheridan's 'conduct-book' novels, the Gothic romances of Radcliffe and Eliza Fenwick and the sensationalistic horror fiction of Charlotte Dacre. Concentrating upon these writers, Chaplin argues that their works 'speak of dread' on behalf of women in this period and to varying degrees challenge discourses that construct femininity as a highly unstable, barely tenable subject position. Combining the works of Lyotard and Irigaray to formulate a new feminist reading of the eighteenth-century discourse of the sublime, this study offers fresh insights into the culture and politics of the eighteenth century. It presents highly original readings of well-known and lesser-known literary texts that interrogate from fresh perspectives the complex theoretical issues pertaining to

Author : John T. Lynch
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754665283

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Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-century Britain by John T. Lynch Pdf

In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. While taking up the critical philosophical questions surrounding fraud, Lynch shows that fakery takes us to the heart of eighteenth-century values as they relate to evidence, perception and memory, the relationship between art and life, historicism, and human motivation.

Author : Christine Gerrard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118702291

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A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by Christine Gerrard Pdf

A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY Edited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Town Eclogues. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780140138191

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English Society in the 18th Century by Roy Porter Pdf

This text offers a picture of eighteenth-century England. It ranges from princes to paupers, and from the metropolis to smallest hamlet. It offers vivid images of the thought, politics, work and recreation of Englishmen at his time.

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781606060520

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Paris by Charissa Bremer-David,J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 26-Aug. 7, 2011, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sept. 18-Dec. 10, 2011.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:C2553952

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The London Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon Dickie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226142548

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Cruelty and Laughter by Simon Dickie Pdf

A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain, this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals, variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.