The Tomahawk Or Censor General

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1795
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590985421

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The Tomahawk! or, Censor general by Anonim Pdf

Author : David R. Bellhouse
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487545048

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The Flawed Genius of William Playfair by David R. Bellhouse Pdf

A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, William Playfair (1759–1823) worked as a statistician, economist, engineer, banker, land speculator, scam artist, and political propagandist. It has been claimed – erroneously – that Playfair was a spy for the British government and ran a forging operation to print the paper money of the French Revolution. The Flawed Genius of William Playfair offers a complete account of Playfair’s life, richly contextualized in the economic, political, and cultural history of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. The book explores the many peaks and troughs of Playfair’s career, ranging from moderate prosperity to bankruptcy and imprisonment. Through careful analysis, David R. Bellhouse shows that Playfair was neither a spy nor a forger, but perhaps briefly a one-time courier for a government minister. Bellhouse pieces together as complete a picture as possible of the forging operations supported by the British government and illuminates Playfair’s lasting contributions in economics and statistics, where he is known as the father of statistical graphics. Disputing the misinformation about the man, The Flawed Genius of William Playfair highlights that the truth about Playfair’s life is often more intriguing than the fictions that surround him.

Author : Murray Dick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262043823

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The Infographic by Murray Dick Pdf

An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism. Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print newspapers, on television news, and online. It has been argued that infographics are changing what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century—and even that they harmonize uniquely with human cognition. In this first serious exploration of the subject, Murray Dick traces the cultural evolution of the infographic, examining its use in news—and resistance to its use—from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism. He identifies six historical phases of infographics in popular culture: the proto-infographic, the classical, the improving, the commercial, the ideological, and the professional. Dick describes the emergence of infographic forms within a wider history of journalism, culture, and communications, focusing his analysis on the UK. He considers their use in the partisan British journalism of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print media; their later deployment as a vehicle for reform and improvement; their mass-market debut in the twentieth century as a means of explanation (and sometimes propaganda); and their use for both ideological and professional purposes in the post–World War II marketized newspaper culture. Finally, he proposes best practices for news infographics and defends infographics and data visualization against a range of criticism. Dick offers not only a history of how the public has experienced and understood the infographic, but also an account of what data visualization can tell us about the past.

Author : Amy Lidster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009356077

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Wartime Shakespeare by Amy Lidster Pdf

This is the first sustained study of how Shakespeare has been mobilized during conflicts spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It draws on interdisciplinary research to develop an innovative critical methodology that reveals the creativity and diversity of wartime theatre production and its variable impacts.

Author : Michael Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351543316

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The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland by Michael Wright Pdf

The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels beneath the established musical radar. The story of the jews-harp is also part of our musical culture, though it has attracted relatively little academic study. Britain and Ireland played a significant role in the instrument‘s manufacture and world distribution, particularly during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Drawing upon previously unknown written sources and piecing together thousands of fragments of information spanning hundreds of years, Michael Wright tells the story of the jews-harp‘s long history in the Britain and Ireland. Beginning with an introductory chapter describing the instrument, Part One looks at the various theories of its ancient origin, how it came to be in Europe, terminology, and its English name. Part Two explores its commercial exploitation and the importance of the export market in the development of manufacturing. Part Three looks the instrument‘s appearance and use in art, literature and the media, finally considering the many players who have used the instrument throughout its long history.

Author : Oskar Cox Jensen,David Kennerley,Ian Newman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192540454

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Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture by Oskar Cox Jensen,David Kennerley,Ian Newman Pdf

Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation. He was an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, artist, music tutor, speculator, and author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides to musical education. This collection of essays illuminates the social and cultural conditions that made such a varied career possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored aspects of late Georgian culture, society, and politics. Tracing the transitions in the cultural economy from an eighteenth-century system of miscellany to a nineteenth-century regime of specialisation, Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture illustrates the variety of Dibdin's cultural output as characteristic of late eighteenth-century entertainment, while also addressing the challenge mounted by a growing preoccupation with specialisation in the early nineteenth century. The chapters, written by some of the leading experts in their individual disciplines, examine Dibdin's extraordinarily wide-ranging career, spanning cultural spaces from the theatres at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, through Ranelagh Gardens, Sadler's Wells, and the Royal Circus, to singing on board ships and in elegant Regency parlours; from broadside ballads and graphic satires, to newspaper journalism, mezzotint etchings, painting, and decorative pottery. Together they demonstrate connections between forms of cultural production that have often been treated as distinct, and provide a model for a more integrated approach to the fabric of late Georgian cultural production.

Author : Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000536843

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Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing by Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland Pdf

Since the eighteenth century, the one-to-one singing lesson has been the most common method of delivery. The scenario allows the teacher to familiarise and individualise the lesson to suit the needs of their student; however, it can also lead to speculation about what is taught. More troubling is the heightened risk of gossip and rumour with the private space generating speculation about the student–teacher relationship. Venanzio Rauzzini (1746–1810), an Italian castrato living in England who became a highly sought-after singing master, was particularly susceptible since his students tended to be women, whose moral character was under more scrutiny than their male counterparts. Even so in 1792, The Bath Chronicle proclaimed the Italian castrato: 'the father of a new style in English singing'. Branding Rauzzini as a founder of an English style was not an error, but indicative of deep-seated anxieties about the Italian invasion on England’s musical culture. This book places teaching at the centre of the socio-historical narrative and provides unique insight into musical culture. Using a microhistory approach, this study is the first to focus in on the impact of teaching and casts new light on issues of celebrity culture, gender and nationalism in Georgian England.

Author : Amy Garnai
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781684484454

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Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama by Amy Garnai Pdf

A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in his own time, but today appears mainly as a supporting character in studies of 1790s literary activism. Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence. In engaging with theatrical censorship, apostacy, and the response of audiences and critics to radical drama, this thoughtful study also demonstrates how theater functions in times of political repression. Despite his struggles, Holcroft also had major successes: this book examines his surprisingly robust afterlife, as his plays, especially The Road to Ruin, were repeatedly revived worldwide in the nineteenth century.

Author : David Worrall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107435971

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Celebrity, Performance, Reception by David Worrall Pdf

By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monopolistic commercial theatrical marketplace. The book presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into performance history. It argues that the cultural meaning of drama changes with every change in the performance location. This theoretical model is applied to a wide range of archival materials including censors' manuscripts, theatre ledger books, performance schedules, unfamiliar play texts and rare printed sources. By examining prompters' records, box office receipts and benefit night takings, the study questions the status of David Garrick, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean, and recovers the neglected actress, Elizabeth Younge, and her importance to Edmund Burke.

Author : Arthur Warren,Grolier Club
Publisher : New York : Grolier Club of New-York
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Chiswick (London, England)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4V59

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The Charles Whittinghams, Printers by Arthur Warren,Grolier Club Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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the charles wittinghams by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jacob-Henry Burn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018276365

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Catalogue of a collection of early newspapers and essayists formed by the late John Thomas Hope and presented to the Bodleian library by the late Fred. Will. Hope. (ed. by J. H. Burn). by Jacob-Henry Burn Pdf

Author : Bodleian Library,John Thomas Hope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : English essays
ISBN : HARVARD:HNJASY

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Catalogue of a Collection of Early Newspapers and Essayists by Bodleian Library,John Thomas Hope Pdf

Author : Lidia De Michelis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527535473

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Politics and Culture in 18th-Century Anglo-Italian Encounters by Lidia De Michelis Pdf

This collection addresses Anglo-Italian influences, correspondences and relationships through the lens of an expansive notion of eighteenth-century political history, explored in its fecund dialogue with cultural history. Its multifaceted approach fleshes out the idea of the Enlightenment community of people linking and sharing different forms and structures of knowledge into a comprehensive picture of the Age of Reason. This book probes fields of great relevance for the cultural interpretation of historical experience, and composes a lively, and as yet unexplored, map of an interconnected European world. Anglo-Italian encounters are explored here primarily through the interweaving of political and cultural history, adding a valuable cog to contemporary insight into the cosmopolitan nature of Enlightenment Europe. The essays here range in scope from the public economy and international trade to finance, moral philosophy, the ethics and politics of translation, travel, the cosmopolitan impact of Italian music and taste, and the art of gardening.

Author : Sarah Burdett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031154744

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The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 by Sarah Burdett Pdf

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, brandishing daggers, thrusting swords, and even firing explosives, the study spotlights the intricate and often surprising ways in which the stage amazon interacts with Anglo-French, Anglo-Irish, Anglo-German, and Anglo-Spanish debates at varying moments across the French revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. At the same time, it foregrounds the extent to which new dramatic genres imported from Europe –notably, the German Sturm und Drang and the French-derived melodrama– facilitate possibilities at the turn of the nineteenth century for a refashioned female warrior, whose degree of agency, destructiveness, and heroism surpasses that of her tragic and sentimental predecessors.