The Arcadian Friends

Author : Tim Richardson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781446436530

Get Book

The Arcadian Friends by Tim Richardson Pdf

Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. Arguably the greatest British art form ever invented, these gardens were built to charm and delight, to shock and inspire all who visited. That these gardens - including Castle Howard, Stowe, Painshill and Rousham - are still so popular with visitors today is a testament to the innovation and passion of this extraordinary group of eccentrics and visionaries. The Arcadian Friends takes a highly engaging perspective on the politics and culture of England during the Enlightenment. At the same time it will be required reading for the legions of fans of the great gardens of England. Tim Richardson introduces us to a period of poltical and personal intrigue, where fantastic biblical landscapes competed for space with temples to sexual freedom; and where the installation of a water feature was a political act. The Arcadian Friends tells the story of a collection of fascinating characters whose influence changed the landscape of Britain for ever.

Author : Tim Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:769140511

Get Book

The Arcadian Friends by Tim Richardson Pdf

Author : Mehl Allan Penrose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317099840

Get Book

Masculinity and Queer Desire in Spanish Enlightenment Literature by Mehl Allan Penrose Pdf

In Masculinity and Queer Desire in Spanish Enlightenment Literature, Mehl Allan Penrose examines three distinct male figures, each of which was represented as the Other in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish literature. The most common configuration of non-normative men was the petimetre, an effeminate, Francophile male who figured a failed masculinity, a dubious sexuality, and an invasive French cultural presence. Also inscribed within cultural discourse were the bujarrón or ’sodomite,’ who participates in sexual relations with men, and the Arcadian shepherd, who expresses his desire for other males and who takes on agency as the voice of homoerotica. Analyzing journalistic essays, poetry, and drama, Penrose shows that Spanish authors employed queer images of men to engage debates about how males should appear, speak, and behave and whom they should love in order to be considered ’real’ Spaniards. Penrose interrogates works by a wide range of writers, including Luis Cañuelo, Ramón de la Cruz, and Félix María de Samaniego, arguing that the tropes created by these authors solidified the gender and sexual binary and defined and described what a ’queer’ man was in the Spanish collective imaginary. Masculinity and Queer Desire engages with current cultural, historical, and theoretical scholarship to propose the notion that the idea of queerness in gender and sexuality based on identifiable criteria started in Spain long before the medical concept of the ’homosexual’ was created around 1870.

Author : Marsha S. Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317478850

Get Book

Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance by Marsha S. Collins Pdf

From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a dramatic shift took place in imagining Arcadia. The traditional visions of Arcadia collided and fused with romance, the new experimental form of prose fiction, producing a hybrid, dynamic world of change and transformation. Emphasizing matters of fictional function and world-making over generic classification, Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance analyzes the role of romance as a catalyst in remaking Arcadia in five, canonical sixteenth-century texts: Sannazaro’s Arcadia; Montemayor’s La Diana; Cervantes’ La Galatea; Sidney’s Arcadia; and Lope de Vega’s Arcadia. Collins’ analyses of the re-imagined Arcadia in these works elucidate the interplay between timely incursions into the fictional world and the timelessness of art, highlighting issues of freedom, identity formation, subjectivity and self-fashioning, the intersection of public and private activity, and the fascination with mortality. This book addresses the under-representation of Spanish literature in Early Modern literary histories, especially regarding the rich Spanish contribution to the pastoral and to idealizing fiction in the West. Companion chapters on Cervantes and Sidney add to the growing field of Anglo-Spanish comparative literary studies, while the book’s comparative and transnational approach extends discussion of the pastoral beyond the boundaries of national literary traditions. This book’s innovative approach to these fictional worlds sheds new light on Arcadia’s enduring presence in the collective imagination today.

Author : Maritere López
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317149804

Get Book

Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 by Maritere López Pdf

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations. The volume is carefully designed to reflect the complexity and multi-faceted nature of early modern friendship, and each chapter comprises a case study of specific contexts, narratives and/or lived friendships. Contributors include scholars of British, French, Italian and Spanish culture, offering literary, historical, religious, and political perspectives. Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 lays the groundwork for a taxonomy of the transformations of friendship discourse in Western Europe and its overlap with emergent views of the psyche and the body, as well as of the relationship of the self to others, classes, social institutions and the state.

Author : Anna Thomasson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447245551

Get Book

A Curious Friendship by Anna Thomasson Pdf

I loved A Curious Friendship. Anna Thomasson, in her first book, has brilliantly captured this strange coterie.' Sir Roy Strong The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of 51, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a 19-year-old art student, life was just beginning. They were to start an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home, the Daye House, in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - for whom she was 'all the muses'. The story is set against the backdrop of a period that spanned the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of the Second World War. With an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances, from the Royal Family to Tallulah Bankhead, Anna Thomasson's A Curious Friendship brings to life, for the first time, the curious, unlikely and fascinating friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.

Author : Vanessa Berridge
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781445672410

Get Book

Great British Gardeners by Vanessa Berridge Pdf

Through the stories of twenty-six inspiring figures - from ‘Capability’ Brown, Humphry Repton and Vita Sackville-West to lesser known figures, and present-day gardeners such as Beth Chatto and John Brookes - this book brings the colourful history of British gardening to life.

Author : Edward Monroe Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 9780195082852

Get Book

Aeschines and Athenian Politics by Edward Monroe Harris Pdf

* The first full-length study of the Athenian politician Aeschines Though often overshadowed by his famous rival Demosthenes, Aeschines plays a major role in the decisive events that marked the rise of Macedonian power in Greece and thus marked the transition from the Classical to the Hellenistic period.

Author : William Fordyce Mavor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022412431

Get Book

Universal History, ancient and modern; from the earliest records of time, to the general peace of 1801 by William Fordyce Mavor Pdf

Author : David Brown,Tom Williamson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781780236926

Get Book

Lancelot Brown and the Capability Men by David Brown,Tom Williamson Pdf

Lancelot “Capability” Brown is often thought of as the innovative genius who single-handedly pioneered a new, naturalistic style of landscape design, but he was in fact only one of many landscape designers in Georgian England. Published to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Brown’s birth, this book casts important new light on his world-renowned work, his eventful life, and the wider and robust world of landscape design in Georgian England. David Brown and Tom Williamson argue that Brown was one of the most successful designers of his time working in a style that was otherwise widespread—and that it was his skill with this style, and not his having invented it, that linked his name to it. The authors look closely at Brown’s design business and the products he offered clients, showing that his design packages helped define the era’s aesthetic. They compare Brown’s business to those of similar designers such as the Adam brothers, Thomas Chippendale, and Josiah Wedgwood, and they contextualize Brown’s work within the wider contexts of domestic planning and the rise of neoclassicism. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book celebrates the work of a master designer who was both a product and harbinger of the modern world.

Author : Michael G. Brennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441135032

Get Book

Evelyn Waugh by Michael G. Brennan Pdf

Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family is a wide-ranging survey of the prolific literary career of one of the most popular English writers of the 20th century. Michael G. Brennan here identifies three major themes as central to any understanding of Waugh's work: Catholicism, society and the concept of family. From Decline and Fall (published in 1928) to his final writings, this book draws not only on the major novels and short stories but also Waugh's substantial journalistic output, his private journals and correspondences and unpublished draft manuscripts. Through this comprehensive and systematic exploration, Brennan demonstrates the sustained creative importance of Catholicism to Waugh's literary work. In addition, the book goes on to consider how Evelyn Waugh's descendants - his son Auberon and his grandson Alexander Waugh - have echoed and developed these literary concerns in their own writing.

Author : Alex Paknadel
Publisher : BOOM
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781613984949

Get Book

Arcadia by Alex Paknadel Pdf

What’s to Love: Our long tradition of breaking new talent—like Rafael Albuquerque (The Savage Brothers, American Vampire), Emma Rios (Hexed, Pretty Deadly), and Declan Shalvey (28 Days Later, Moon Knight)—continues with the debut of Alex Paknadel and Eric Scott Pfeiffer, two new creators whose extensive world-building in the sci-fi thriller Arcadia evokes comparisons to epics like Game of Thrones, The Matrix, and Astro City. What It Is: When 99% of humankind is wiped out by a pandemic, four billion people are “saved” by being digitized at the brink of death and uploaded into Arcadia, a utopian simulation in the cloud. But when Arcadia begins to rapidly deplete the energy resources upon which the handful of survivors in the real world (aka “The Meat”) depends, how long will The Meat be able—and willing—to help? Collects the entire eight-issue series.

Author : Undine Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018822036

Get Book

The Arcadian Ethic by Undine Dunn Pdf

Author : Jane Yolen,Robert J. Harris
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781480423350

Get Book

Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast by Jane Yolen,Robert J. Harris Pdf

DIVDIVBefore Atalanta became a Greek legend, she encountered a beast . . ./divDIV Abandoned by her parents and raised by bears until the age of four, Atalanta has led a life of adventure. After her adoptive father is slain by a ferocious beast, the twelve-year-old Atalanta sets off on a journey of revenge, accompanied by the bear she treats as a brother. She discovers that a monster is terrorizing the land of Arcadia and that the king has assembled a party to track it down—led by the legendary huntsman Orion. Atalanta wins a place at Orion’s side, but the hunt for the beast is also a hunt to uncover the secret of her own past. And that may prove to be the greatest danger of all./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features personal histories by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris including rare images from the authors’ personal collections, as well as a timeline of the Heroic Age and a conversation between the two authors about the making of the series./div/div

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102875549

Get Book

Short Tales and Anecdotes from Ancient History by William Smith Pdf