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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10278488
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1787
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10278484
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:C2643755
Author : Adam Chill
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476663302
Boxing was phenomenally popular in 18th and 19th century Britain. Aristocrats attended matches and patronized boxers, and the most important fights drew tens of thousands of spectators. Promoters of the sport claimed that it showcased the timeless and authentic ideal of English manhood--a rock of stability in changing times. Yet many of the best fighters of the era were Irish, Jewish or black. This history focuses on how boxers, journalists, politicians, pub owners and others used national, religious and racial identities to promote pugilism and its pure English pedigree, even as ethnic minorities won distinction in the sport, putting the diversity of the Empire on display.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11456004
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z340711104
Author : Alessa Johns
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611495898
Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism in what was once reductively termed an age of reason and realism. Due to the critique Starr spearheaded, scholars today can approach with greater assurance the complex interplay of reason and emotion, thought and sensibility, science and feeling, rationality and enthusiasm, judgment and wit, as well as forethought and instinct, as these shaped the scientific, religious, political, social, literary, and cultural revolutions of the Enlightenment. Indeed, contributors to this anthology take inspiration from Starr’s work to shed new light on Enlightenment thought and sociocultural formations generally, offering fresh interpretations of a period in which Reflection and Sentiment circulated, mutually influenced each other, and contended equally for cultural attention. In nine separate essays they explore: the ways sentiment and sentimentalism inflect the moral and ideological ambit of Enlightenment discourses; the sociopolitics of religious debate; the issues promoted by women writers, by gender and family relations; the artistic and rhetorical uses of lived language; the impacts of cultural developments on novelistic form; and the wide shifts in the literary marketplace. Deploying tools advanced by new work in animal studies, gender criticism, media analysis, genre studies, the new formalism, and ethical inquiry, and enabled by the power of digitization and new databases, the authors of this volume explain how and to what ends denizens of the Enlightenment were touched and moved.
Author : Marilyn Booth
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781474439015
Explores translation in the context of the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic late-Ottoman Mediterranean world. Fénelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, excoriated French novels circulating through the Ottoman Empire in Greek, Arabic and Turkish: literary translation at the eastern end of the Mediterranean offered worldly vistas and new, hybrid genres to emerging literate audiences in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Whether to propagate 'national' language reform, circulate the Bible, help audiences understand European opera, argue for girls' education, institute pan-Islamic conversations, introduce political concepts, share the Persian Gulistan with Anglophone readers in Bengal, or provide racy fiction to schooled adolescents in Cairo and Istanbul, translation was an essential tool. But as these essays show, translators were inventors, and their efforts might yield surprising results.
Author : Paul J. Korshin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512809435
Three distinguished authorities offer informed reflections on the history of books, on literary commerce, and on the reading public in eighteenth-century England, France, and Germany. Concerned with an area of study that has gone largely unexplored—the social function of the book trade and the various agencies of distribution—Robert Darnton. Roy M. Wiles, and Bernhard Fabian lay the groundwork for the intellectual, social, and literary historian as well as the student of political revolutions. Robert Darnton's rich account of a clandestine book dealer expands our knowledge of the actual habits of eighteenth-century Frenchmen. We learn about the livres philosophiques, as they were known in the trade—obscene. irreligious. or seditious works; about the intricate circuit of agents linking publisher and bookdealer; and about a confidence game often surviving on sheer bravura. Darnton not only gives us a general sense of the literary tastes in a small provincial city in France on the eve of the Revolution but also opens the way toward an understanding of the country's entire literary underground. The late Roy M. Wiles investigates the principal readership in eighteenth-century England and demonstrates that intellectual activities were not confined to polite society in London. Employing new, often untouched materials—newspaper circulation and delivery figures, book lists and advertisements in London and local papers, subscription books in provincial towns and cities—Wiles helps dispel some of the uncertainty surrounding the question of literacy and shows that, in fact, what the provincial readers chose to read more accurately registers the eighteenth century's relish for reading than those books considered by Londoners as "required" reading. Bernhard Fabian explores the sources that permit us to assess the circulation of English letters in Germany during the second half of the eighteenth century. By considering the kind of information obtained from subscription lists, by studying the relation of English literature to the general reader of the period, and by examining the emergence of a reading public that actually read English, Fabian helps delineate a broad view of the contemporary reading scene in eighteenth-century Germany.
Author : Liz Williams
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789142600
A bewitching and authoritative historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from the ancient peoples of Britain to the rich and cosmopolitan landscape of contemporary paganism. “An absolute must for anyone interested in the development of paganism in the modern world. I cannot recommend this book enough.”—Janet Farrar, coauthor of A Witches’ Bible “At last, we have a history of British Paganism written from the inside, by somebody who not only has a good knowledge of the sources, but explicitly understands how Pagans and magicians think.”—Ronald Hutton, author of The Triumph of the Moon and The Witch What do we mean by “paganism”—druids, witches, and occult rituals? Healing charms and forbidden knowledge? Miracles of Our Own Making is a historical overview of pagan magic in the British Isles, from the ancient peoples of Britain to the rich and cosmopolitan landscape of contemporary paganism. Exploring the beliefs of the druids, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings, as well as Elizabethan Court alchemy and witch trials, we encounter grimoires, ceremonial magic, and the Romantic revival of arcane deities. The influential and well-known—the Golden Dawn, Wicca, and figures such as Aleister Crowley—are considered alongside the everyday “cunning folk” who formed the magical fabric of previous centuries. Ranging widely across literature, art, science, and beyond, Liz Williams debunks many of the prevailing myths surrounding magical practice, past and present, while offering a rigorously researched and highly accessible account of what it means to be a pagan today.
Author : Neil Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315476001
Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the British Admiralty and with the generation of naval officers who sailed after Cook. Volume 3 Letters 1789–1792
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015073454822
Author : British Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0007886260
Author : Bernhard Fabian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : UCAL:B4094135
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : English imprints
ISBN : IND:30000092329915