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Book Harlequin Phoenix  Or  the Rise and Fall of a Bergamask Rogue   Study of the Progress of the Clown Harlequin    With Plates  Including Portraits  and a Bibliography

Download or read book Harlequin Phoenix Or the Rise and Fall of a Bergamask Rogue Study of the Progress of the Clown Harlequin With Plates Including Portraits and a Bibliography written by Thelma Niklaus and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paradise Possessed

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : National Library Australia
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0642106983
  • Pages : 87 pages

Download or read book Paradise Possessed written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1998 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays

Book The Mysterious Mother  A Tragedy

Download or read book The Mysterious Mother A Tragedy written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama

Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama written by Jeffrey N. Cox and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-02-05 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on “closet dramas” rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period. It includes the dramatic work of canonical Romantic poets (Samuel Coleridge’s Remorse, Percy Shelley’s The Cenci, and Lord Byron’s Sardanapalus) and important plays by women dramatists (Hannah Cowley’s A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Elizabeth Inchbald’s Every One Has His Fault, and Joanna Baillie’s Orra). It also provides a selection of popular theatrical genres—from melodrama and pantomime to hippodrama and parody—most popular in the period, featuring plays by George Colman the Younger, Thomas John Dibdin, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. In short, this is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive anthology of Romantic drama ever published. The introduction by the editors provides an informative overview of the drama and stage practices of the Romantic Period. The anthology also provides copious supplementary materials, including an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading. Each of the ten plays has been fully edited and annotated.

Book Mr Bligh s Bad Language

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  • Author : Greg Dening
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1994-03-25
  • ISBN : 9780521467186
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Mr Bligh s Bad Language written by Greg Dening and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-25 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was one of the least violent disciplinarians in the British navy. It is this paradox which inspired Greg Dening to ask why the mutiny took place. His book explores the theatrical nature of what was enacted in the power-play on deck, on the beaches at Tahiti and in the murderous settlement at Pitcairn, on the altar stones and temples of sacrifice, and on the catheads from which men were hanged. Part of the key lies in the curious puzzle of Mr Bligh's bad language.

Book Imagining the Pacific in the Wake of the Cook Voyages

Download or read book Imagining the Pacific in the Wake of the Cook Voyages written by Bernard Smith and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores in more depth the issues first dealt with in European Vision and the South Pacific. Smith continues his examination of how European artists and scientists travelling to the Pacific during the time of Cook's voyages were stimulated to see the world in new and creative ways. In analysing intensely personal responses to a newly accessible environment, Smith shows how science, topography and travel had an impact on current pictorial genres, how an empirical naturalism affected long-standing classical conventions, and how difficult it was for the artists to portray people and places they knew little about.

Book Readings writings

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  • Author : Greg Dening
  • Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780522848410
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Readings writings written by Greg Dening and published by Melbourne University Publish. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading is a dance on the beaches of the mind, writes Greg Dening. His reading-dances are about the pain of cross-cultural encounters, of loomings beyond the horizons of discipline, gender and race, of the pleasures of a hundred texts. In Readings/Writings his aim is to cultivate our imaginations so that we might see further, understand more deeply and hear more acutely. This book opens with Dening's extraordinary piece, 'Memorial', a deeply moving reading of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Dening's profound yet lucid reflections on the meanings contained in this stark, simple memorial set the tone for the book.

Book A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

Download or read book A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition of the account of Captain James Cook's third voyage (1776-1780), consisting of three quarto volumes of text and plates, and one folio atlas, the latter without title-page.

Book A Contradiction Still

Download or read book A Contradiction Still written by Christa Knellwolf King and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a critique of the views concerning gender and gender roles in Pope's poetry. It engages directly with current issues in feminist criticism, cultural studies and identity politics.

Book Romantic Metropolis

Download or read book Romantic Metropolis written by James Chandler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 collection of essays challenges the traditional conception that British Romanticism was rooted in nature and rural life, by showing that much of what was new about Romanticism was born in the city. The essays examine the works and events of the Romantic period from the point of view of the urban world, where rapid developments in population, industry, communication, trade, and technology set the stage and the tone for many of the great achievements in literature and culture. The great metropolis appears as both fact and figure: London is its paradigm, but the metropolitan perspective is also borrowed and projected elsewhere. In this volume, some of the most exciting critics of Romanticism explore diverse cultural productions from poems and paintings, to exhibition sites, panoramas, and political organizations to do long-overdue justice to the place of the city - both as topic and as location - in British Romanticism.

Book The Italian Comedy

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  • Author : Pierre Louis Duchartre
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-11-16
  • ISBN : 0486138526
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Italian Comedy written by Pierre Louis Duchartre and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated history of the beginnings, growth and influence of the commedia dell’ arte. Describes improvisations, staging, marks, scenarios, acting troupes, and origins.

Book Journal of Captain Cook s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean  On Discovery  Performed in the Years 1776  1777  1778  1779  Illustrated With Cuts  and a

Download or read book Journal of Captain Cook s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean On Discovery Performed in the Years 1776 1777 1778 1779 Illustrated With Cuts and a written by John Rickman and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Radical Underworld

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  • Author : Iain McCalman
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1988-03-03
  • ISBN : 9780521307550
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Radical Underworld written by Iain McCalman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-03-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government "Terror" of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. The book traces for the first time the history of theunderground revolutionary-republican grouping founded by the agrarian reformer, Thomas Spence. Challenging conventional distinctions between "high" and "low" culture, McCalman illuminates the darker, more populist sides of Romanticism. Radical Underworld broadens the conventional boundaries ofpopular politics and culture by exploring a political underworld connected with poverty, crime, prophetic religion, and literary culture.

Book Romanticism and the Gothic

Download or read book Romanticism and the Gothic written by Michael Gamer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature, including its institutional and commercial recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology. In doing so he examines the early history of the Romantic movement and its assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century. As a whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing and audience on its formation.

Book Return to Tahiti

Download or read book Return to Tahiti written by William Bligh and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven  Or  a Picture of the Manners and Character of the Age  in a Poetical Epistle from a Lady of Quality

Download or read book Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven Or a Picture of the Manners and Character of the Age in a Poetical Epistle from a Lady of Quality written by WILLIAM. PRESTON and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T009199 A lady of quality = William Preston. London: printed for T. Evans, 1777. [2],25, [1]p.; 4°

Book Wine and Walnuts

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  • Author : William Pyne
  • Publisher : Gale ECCO, Print Editions
  • Release : 2017-07-20
  • ISBN : 9781375109703
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Wine and Walnuts written by William Pyne and published by Gale ECCO, Print Editions. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers. The Corvey library was built during the last half of the 19th century by Victor and his wife Elise, both bibliophiles with varied interests. The collection thus contains everything from novels and short stories to belles lettres and more populist works, and includes many exceedingly rare works not available in any other collection from the period. These invaluable, sometimes previously unknown works are of particular interest to scholars and researchers. European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes: * Novels and Gothic Novels * Short Stories * Belles-Lettres * Short Prose Forms * Dramatic Works * Poetry * Anthologies * And more Selected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods. Additional Metadata Primary Id: B0235102 PSM Id: NCCOF0063-C00000-B0235102 DVI Collection Id: NCCOC0062 Bibliographic Id: NCCO003249 Reel: 1121 MCODE: 4UVC Original Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown Original Publication Year: 1823 Original Publication Place: London Original Imprint Manufacturer: Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode Variant Titles After dinner chit-chat After dinner chit chat Subjects English fiction -- 19th century.