Download or read book Three Score Years and Ten or More written by Trevor James Cooper and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Score Years and Ten: Or More? delves into the enduring fascination with individuals who live beyond 100 years. The intrigue centres not only on the accomplishment itself but also on the mysteries of how and why these people achieve such remarkable longevity. This research shifts its focus from contemporary centenarians, whose ages can be more reliably verified due to improved record-keeping, to an earlier era marked by less clear historical records. It investigates the genesis of this interest and the emergence of what could be termed a ‘cult of centenarianism.’ During this period, claims of extreme old age sparked debates between believers and sceptics, creating a cultural divide. The book also examines the significant role media played in this phenomenon. The portrayal and promotion of centenarians by the media of the time laid the groundwork for themes explored in this book, contributing to the ongoing public intrigue surrounding individuals of advanced age.
Download or read book Defoe s Review 1704 13 Volume 1 1704 5 Part II written by John McVeagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Daniel Defoe's greatest achievements was the writing and publication of his "Review". Covering his many interests, both contemporary and historical, Defoe published his journal twice and latterly three times a week. This volume reproduces the "Review" from the year 1704.
Download or read book Defoe s Review 1704 13 Volume 1 1704 5 Part I written by John McVeagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Daniel Defoe's greatest achievements was the writing and publication of his "Review". Covering his many interests, both contemporary and historical, Defoe published his journal twice and latterly three times a week. This volume reproduces the "Review" from the year 1704.
Download or read book Defoe s Review 1704 13 Volume 4 1707 Part II written by John McVeagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering Daniel Defoe's many interests, both literary and historical, this edition is the fourth volume in "Pickering and Chatto's" 18-volume series.
Download or read book Defoe s Review 1704 13 Volume 2 1705 Part I written by John McVeagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an important and rare work in the political and literary history of England and for a Defoe scholar. It is one of the earliest examples of the political periodical, and includes discussions on the parliamentary election of 1705 and Defoe's weekly Scandal Club correspondence.
Download or read book Defoe s Review 1704 13 Volume 3 1706 Part I written by John McVeagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Daniel Defoe's greatest achievements was the writing and publication of his "Review". Covering his many interests, both contemporary and historical, Defoe published his journal twice and latterly three times a week. This volume reproduces the "Review" from the year 1704.
Download or read book Defoe s Review 1704 13 Volume 5 1708 9 Part I written by John McVeagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses one of Daniel Defoe's greatest, but least known works, his periodical the "Review of the State of the British Nation". Defoe's Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion.
Download or read book The Collected Works of William Hazlitt Contributions to the Edinburgh review written by William Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book i A Brief History of an English Literature An Augustan Age written by Rakesh Rathod (MA English) and published by Nitya Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century in English literature has been called the Augustan Age the Neoclassical Age, and the Age of Reason. The term 'the Augustan Age' comes from the self-conscious imitation of the original Augustan writers, Virgil and Horace, by many of the writers of the period. Specifically, the Augustan Age was the period after the Restoration era to the death of Alexander Pope (~1690 - 1744). The major writers of the age were Pope and John Dryden in poetry, and Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison in prose. Dryden forms the link between Restoration and Augustan literature; although he wrote ribald comedies in the Restoration vein, his verse satires were highly admired by the generation of poets who followed him, and his writings on literature were very much in a neoclassical spirit. I particularly aimed at interpretation of sociopolitical milieu of Augustan Age, of social change, of literary tendencies of the age, and of prose, novel, poetry and drama of the Augustan Age.
Download or read book Defoe s Review written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daniel Defoe Contrarian written by Robert James Merrett and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material and intellectual phenomena from opposing, but not contradictory perspectives. Moreover, the boundaries of genre within his wide-ranging oeuvre can prove highly fluid. In this study, Robert James Merrett approaches Defoe’s body of work using interdisciplinary methods that recognize dialectic in his verbal creativity and cognitive awareness. Examining more than ninety of Defoe’s works, Merrett contends that this author’s literariness exploits a conscious dialogue that fosters the reciprocity of traditional and progressive authorial procedures. Along the way, he discusses Defoe’s lexical and semantic sensibility, his rhetorical and aesthetic theories, his contrarian theology, and more. Merrett proposes that Defoe’s contrarian outlook celebrates a view of consciousness that acknowledges the brain’s bipartite structure, and in so doing illustrates how cognitive science may be applied to further explorations of narrative art.
Download or read book Daniel Defoe written by Paula R. Backscheider and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe's remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals new information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, his dangerous pen—and his cat-and-mouse games with those who sought to control it. This is the definitive biography of one of eighteenth-century England's most influential figures—and one of the most prolific and widely read authors of all time
Download or read book Daniel Defoe and Diplomacy written by William James Roosen and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe's ideas on international relations and diplomacy show that he was a diplomatic realist who was concerned with such topics as the dangers of universal monarchy, the balance of power, just wars, the rights and responsibilities of diplomatic agents, and the operations of alliances.
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Download or read book The Harvard Classics English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay c1910 written by Charles William Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 49--Epic and saga.
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