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Book From Courtesy to Civility

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Bryson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780198217657
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book From Courtesy to Civility written by Anna Bryson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What counted as good and bad manners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Anna Bryson explores what is often entertaining evidence for Tudor and Stuart ideas of bodily decency and decorum, table manners and polite conversation, and also shows the crucial importance of the values of "courtesy" and "civility" in an aristocratic society.

Book Collections and Notes

Download or read book Collections and Notes written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collections and Notes  1867 1876

Download or read book Collections and Notes 1867 1876 written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sot Weed Factor

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Barth
  • Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Release : 2023-10-10
  • ISBN : 1628974303
  • Pages : 887 pages

Download or read book Sot Weed Factor written by John Barth and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the eighteenth-century picaresque novel—think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy—is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late seventeenth century and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, dutiful son and determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco (or "sot weed") plantation. He is also eventually given to believe that he has been commissioned by the third Lord Baltimore to write an epic poem, The Marylandiad. But things are not always what they seem. Actually, things are almost never what they seem. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many perils. Pirates, Indians, shrewd prostitutes, armed insurrectionists—Cooke endures them all, plus assaults on his virginity from both women and men. Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale—revealed to us in the 'secret' journals of Capt. John Smith—that anyone has ever dared to tell." —Time

Book A Hand list of the Early English Literature Preserved in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library

Download or read book A Hand list of the Early English Literature Preserved in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare  1495 1616

Download or read book Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare 1495 1616 written by R. W. Dent and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renaissance Bodies

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  • Author : Lucy Gent
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780948462085
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Renaissance Bodies written by Lucy Gent and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Bodies is a unique collection of views on the ways in which the human image has been represented in the arts and literature of English Renaissance society. The subjects discussed range from high art to popular culture - from portraits of Elizabeth I to polemical prints mocking religious fanaticism - and include miniatures, manners, anatomy, drama and architectural patronage. The authors, art historians and literary critics, reflect diverse critical viewpoints, and the 78 illustrations present a fascinating exhibition of the often strange and haunting images of the period. With essays by John Peacock, Elizabeth Honig, Andrew and Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Sawday, Susan Wiseman, Ellen Chirelstein, Tamsyn Williams, Anna Bryson, Maurice Howard and Nigel Llewellyn. "The whole book ... presents a mirror of contemporary concerns with power, the merits and demerits of individualism, sex-roles, 'selves', the meaning of community and (even) conspicuous consumption."--The Observer

Book Gentlefolk in the Making

Download or read book Gentlefolk in the Making written by John E. Mason and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed compilation of books on polite conduct from Elyot's The Governour to Chesterfield's Letters, with generous quotations from the more important ones.

Book Catalogue of early English poetry and other miscellaneous works illustrating the British drama  collected by E  Malone      and now preserved in the Bodleian library

Download or read book Catalogue of early English poetry and other miscellaneous works illustrating the British drama collected by E Malone and now preserved in the Bodleian library written by Bodleian Library and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Child and His Book

Download or read book The Child and His Book written by Louise Frances Story Field and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England

Download or read book The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England written by A. McShane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of essays by renowned and emerging scholars exploring how everyday matters from farting to friendship reveal extraordinary aspects of early modern life, while seemingly exceptional acts and beliefs – such as those of ghosts, prophecies, and cannibalism – illuminate something of the routine experience of ordinary people.

Book Gentlefolk in the Making

Download or read book Gentlefolk in the Making written by John Edward Mason and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: