Download or read book Memoirs of the life and travels of Thomas Hammond written by Thomas Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond written by Thomas Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond 1748 1775 written by Thomas Hammond and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated manuscript from the eighteenth century now being published for the first time, Thomas Hammond's memoirs are a major discovery. Hammond was a self-educated but remarkably gifted writer with a knack for seizing unlikely opportunities for adventure. We follow this abandoned waif as he embarks on a long journey through bewildering foreign lands—working by turns as a stableboy, jockey, servant to French nobles, itinerant circus rider, and entertainment entrepreneur—only to recover his home and father at the end of his travels. Personal narratives by the eighteenth century’s non-elites are exceedingly rare, and Hammond’s memoir provides a wonderfully vivid depiction of the texture of everyday life in that era. Possessed of a dry wit, Hammond can be hilarious, offering uproarious descriptions of stableboy pranks or the highly unsanitary conditions of a Portuguese inn; but he can also be compellingly frank about his emotions, revealing how deprived of love he felt as a young boy, describing climbing into an oven for warmth after having lost his mother to smallpox, or earnestly recounting how he fell in love with his master's (supposed) wife. This edition includes numerous illustrations from the original manuscript—Hammond’s own hand-drawn travel maps and depictions of bullfighting as well as various images of the equestrian life collected by Hammond, many in brilliant color.
Download or read book Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth Century British Imagination written by Srividhya Swaminathan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World, the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the power of association.
Download or read book Daniel Defoe in Context written by Albert J. Rivero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative in its structure and approach, Daniel Defoe in Context contains 42 essays by leading scholars illuminating the life, times, and world of Daniel Defoe. Defoe is one of the most important literary figures in English history, thanks not only to his pioneering novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, but also to his notable works in journalism, travel writing, conduct literature, and verse, both satiric and serious. Written with general readers and students in mind, the essays in this volume provide up-to-date knowledge about eighteenth-century literature, culture, and history in a high quality, clearly written, but completely accessible form. Together they demonstrate the ways not only in which Defoe's world shaped his writing, but also in which Defoe's writings profoundly affected his world, and therefore our world.
Download or read book Henry Fielding at Work written by L. Bertelsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-10-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a writer, businessman and magistrate, Henry Fielding was in a singular position to textualize eighteenth-century English cultural conditions and materially to author the text of his society. Not only did he extol employment, he co-owned an employment agency. Not only did he commit fictional criminals to paper, he committed actual criminals to prison. And he could and did commit actual criminals to prison and paper simultaneously. Henry Fielding at Work examines the intersections of Fielding's practice as magistrate, businessman, and writer, and explores the ways Fielding's experience in those capacities affected the conception, form and articulation of his final literary works.
Download or read book Memoir of Captain M M Hammond written by M.M. Hammond and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of the Four Monthly Meetings of Friends of Philadelphia written by Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of the Four Monthly Meetings of Friends of Philadelphia written by Friends' Library (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of James Henry Hammond written by Paul F. Hammond and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 6620 Hammonds of Hammond Downs Memoirs written by G.E. Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir prepared by Mrs G.E.Hammond of Hammond Downs.
Download or read book Finding List written by Philadelphia. Apprentices' Library Company and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the New World written by Girolamo Benzoni and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Otis Library of the City of Norwich written by Otis Library and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works of Thomas Manton D D written by Thomas Manton and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Dr Hammond Together with the Life of the Author With Many Additions and Corrections from the Author s Own Hand written by Henry Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Writing Contemporary Autobiography Biography and Travel Writing written by Koray Melikoglu and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings of the international 2006 symposium ‘The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature’ at Haliç University, Istanbul, include the majority of contributions to this event, some of them heavily revised for publication. A first group, treatments of more comprehensive and/or theoretical aspects of life and travel writing, concerns genre history (Nazan Aksoy; Manfred Pfister), typology (Manfred Pfister; Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson), issues of narration (Gerald P. Mulderig; Rana Tekcan), the recent phenomenon of blogging (Leman Giresunlu), and therapeutic narrative (Wendy Ryden). A second group—whose concern often heavily overlaps with the first in that it also pursues theoretical goals—concentrates on individual authors and artists: Sabâ Altınsay and Dido Sotiriou (Banu Özel), Samuel Beckett (Oya Berk), the sculptor Alexander Calder (Barbara B. Zabel), G. Thomas Couser and his filial memoir, Moris Farhi (Bronwyn Mills), Jean Genet (Clare Brandabur), Henry James (Laurence Raw), Orhan Pamuk (Dilek Doltaş; Ayşe F. Ece), Sylvia Plath (Richard J. Larschan), Edouard Roditi (Clifford Endres), Sara Rosenberg (Claire Emilie Martin), the dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai (Leena Chandorkar), Alev Tekinay (Özlem Öğüt), Uwe Timm (Jutta Birmele), and female British and American Oriental travellers (Tea Jansson).
