Download or read book John Stuart Blackie written by Anna M. Stoddart and published by Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood. This book was released on 1895 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Stuart Blackie written by Stuart Wallace and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe's Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central. But Blackie was also a great 'public man', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status. Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.

Download or read book A Bookman s Catalogue Vol 1 A L written by T. Bose and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.

Download or read book Among the Untrodden Ways written by M. E. Francis and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book MAN S PLACE IN THE COSMOS written by Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study of Ethical Principles written by James Seth and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bannockburns written by Robert Crawford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism and how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence from 1314 to today. Publication coincides with the 700-year anniversary of the Battle o

Download or read book With the Conquering Turk written by George Warrington Steevens and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Old Memories written by Sir Hugh Henry Gough and published by Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons. This book was released on 1897 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of cavalry officer with Hodson's Horse before, Delhi, Agra, Lucknow during Sepoy Rebellion 1857; inc. winning of Victoria Cross.

Download or read book England s darling written by Joanne Parker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two decades, numerous studies have been devoted to the Victorian fascination with King Arthur, however . the figure of King Alfred has received almost no attention. For much of the nineteenth century, Alfred was as important as Arthur in the British popular imagination. A pervasive cult of the king developed which included the erection of at least four public statues, the completion of more than twenty-five paintings, and the publication of over a hundred texts, by authors ranging from Wordsworth to minor women writers. By 1852, J.A. Froude could describe Alfred’s life as ‘the favourite story in English nurseries’; in 1901, a national holiday marked the thousandth anniversary of his death, organised by a committee including Edward Burne Jones, Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hughes. England’s darling sets out to answer the questions that must arise in the face of such nineteenth-century enthusiasm for a long-dead king. It addresses a genuine gap in the literature on Victorian medievalism in particular and cultural history in general and argues that knowledge of the cult of Alfred is crucial to understanding the Victorian cultural map. The book examines the ways in which Alfred was rewritten by nineteenth-century authors and artists, and asks how beliefs about the Saxon king’s reign and achievements related to nineteenth-century ideals about leadership, law, religion, commerce, education and the Empire. The book concludes by addressing the most interesting enigma in Alfred’s reception history: why is the king no longer ‘England’s darling’? A fascinating study that will be enjoyed by scholars of history, cultural history, literature and art history.

Download or read book Chapters in an Adventurous Life written by E. M. Church and published by Edinburgh : W. Blackwood. This book was released on 1895 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays Literary and Philosophical written by James Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Davidson First of the Moderns written by John Sloan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long ago as 1917, Virginia Woolf expressed surprise that anyone as good as John Davidson should 'be so little famous'. Now, at last, criticism has established Davidson as a key figure in the emergence of literary modernism, as the best Scottish poet between Robert Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid, and as an important influence on the younger poets of his day, most notably T. S. Eliot. In this, the first biography of Davidson for more than thirty years, John Sloan presents a wealth of new information about Davidson's life, including his time in London, and the ties which connect him to Sherard's circle, to Wilde, Yeats, and the Rhymers' Club. John Davidson, First of the Moderns explores Davidson's career in London as a penniless author, struggling to reconcile the freedom to experience demanded by the avant-garde artist in the age of the Decadence with the obligations of family, and to combine his ambition for a many-sided reputation as a poet, novelist, and playwright with his need to survive in the commercial rough and tumble of Fleet Street, the theatre, and Paternoster Row. The conditions of authorship, the literary scandals and rows of Fleet Street, and the revelations of the characters involved here provide the literary background to the life of John Davidson. The picture that emerges is not simply of a late Victorian rebel, but of a proto-Modernist who from his recovery from a breakdown in 1896 to his strange disappearance and death in 1909, pioneered a new idiom and subject matter for twentieth-century verse.

Download or read book The Apostolic Ministry in the Scottish Church written by Robert Herbert Story and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Under crescent and star written by Andrew Charles Parker Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Teaching Function of the Modern Pulpit written by James Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Worship and Offices of the Church of Scotland or the Celebration of Public Worship the Administration of the Sacraments and Other Divine Offices According to the Order of the Church of Scotland written by George Washington Sprott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.