Download or read book The Vagabond written by George Walker and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1799, George Walker's The Vagabond was an immediate popular success. Offering a vitriolic critique of post-Bastille Jacobinism and sansculotte-style mob rule, its true-to-life satirical portraits of many of the radical men and women who fought in the forefront of the "British Revolution" are nonetheless full of playful banter and farce. With swipes at Hume, Rousseau, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Paine; the French Revolution; and the ideas of the noble savage, natural virtue, liberty, equality, and romantic primitivism, The Vagabond offers a unique cross-section of 1790s radicalism. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a wide selection of primary source materials that situate the novel in the context of the revolutionary debate of the 1790s. Appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel and excerpts from the writings of a variety of radicals and reactionaries engaged in the debate, such as Hume, Rousseau, Paine, Thelwall, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Burke, Playfair, Malthus, and Cobbett, among many others.
Download or read book The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare s Youth written by John active 1559-1577 Awdelay and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeares Youth serves as a vibrant tableau that showcases the rich tapestry of Elizabethan society through the lens of its most colorful and often marginalized characters. The collection intricately weaves together a variety of literary formsfrom prose to poetry, from satirical pamphlets to heartfelt balladshighlighting the diverse voices that echoed in the streets of Shakespeares England. The anthology casts a spotlight on the otherwise shadowy figures of rogues and vagabonds, giving life to their stories through a compilation that is as educational as it is entertaining, and stands as a testament to the breadth of human experience captured in early modern literature. The contributing authors, John Awdelay and Thomas Harman, emerge from the depths of history not just as writers, but as crucial chroniclers of their time, offering unprecedented insights into the underbelly of Elizabethan society. Both authors were active during a period brimming with literary experimentation and social upheaval, making their works particularly resonant. This collection aligns with the broader cultural and literary movements of the Renaissance, knitting together a panorama of voices that, together, provide a fuller understanding of the eras zeitgeist. This anthology is recommended for readers keen on delving into the multifaceted world of Shakespearean England beyond the usual narratives. Exploring this collection opens up a unique vantage point on historical and cultural dynamics through the marginal yet vivid lives of rogues and vagabonds. It's an educational journey that enriches ones grasp of literary styles, historical context, and the enduring power of storytelling. Through these pages, the reader is invited to engage in a dialogue with the past, exploring the themes of social disparity, the human condition, and the rich tapestry of life that woven together, constitutes the Elizabethan epoch.
Download or read book The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare s Youth Awdeley s Fraternitye of Vacabondes and Harman s Caveat written by John Awdeley and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vagabonds written by Eloghosa Osunde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.” —Los Angeles Times In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives. As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who make their paths and move invisibly, who embrace apparitions, old vengeances and alternative realities. Eloghosa Osunde's brave, fiercely inventive novel traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician with the power to command life and death; a legendary fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a wife and mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her world. As their lives intertwine—in bustling markets and underground clubs, churches and hotel rooms—vagabonds are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city's dark energy. Whether running from danger, meeting with secret lovers, finding their identities, or vanquishing their shadowselves, Osunde's characters confront and support one another, before converging for the once-in-a-lifetime gathering that gives the book its unexpectedly joyous conclusion. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! is a vital work of imagination that takes us deep inside the hearts, minds, and bodies of a people in duress—and in triumph.
Download or read book The Vagabond in Literature written by Arthur Compton-Rickett and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliographical notes": pages 206-[207] Foreword.--Introduction: The vagabond element in modern literature--I. William Hazlitt.--II. Thomas De Quincey.--III. George Borrow.--IV. Henry D. Thoreau.--V. Robert Louis Stevenson.--VI. Richard Jefferies.--VII. Walt Whitman.
Download or read book The Royal Dictionary Abridged The Fourth Edition Carefully Corrected Etc written by Abel BOYER and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tattooed Girl written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Seigl, a celebrated but reclusive author, is forced for reasons of failing health to surrender his much-prized bachelor's independence. Advertising for an assistant, he unwittingly embarks upon the most dangerous adventure of his privileged life. Alma Busch, a sensuous, physically attractive young woman with bizarre tattoos covering much of her body, stirs in Seigl a complex of emotions: pity? desire? responsibility? guilt? Unaware of her painful past and her troubled personality, Seigl hires her as his assistant. As the novel alternates between Seigl's and Alma's points of view, the naïve altruism of the one and the virulent anti-Semitism of the other clash in a tragedy of thwarted erotic desire. With her masterful balance of dark suspense and surprising tenderness, Joyce Carol Oates probes the contemporary tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges our accepted limits of desire. The Tattooed Girl may be her most controversial novel.
Download or read book The Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fraternitye of Vacabondesby John Awdeley written by Edward Viles and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foreign Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pen International written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronicle Or History of England written by Richard Grafton and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grafton s Chronicle Or History of England written by Richard Grafton and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW written by APRIL AUGUST and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Racing Calendar for written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Force of Beauty written by Holly Grout and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The market for commercial beauty products exploded in Third Republic France, with a proliferation of goods promising to erase female imperfections and perpetuate an aesthetic of femininity that conveyed health and respectability. While the industry's meteoric growth helped to codify conventional standards of womanhood, The Force of Beauty goes beyond the narrative of beauty culture as a tool for sociopolitical subjugation to show how it also targeted women as important consumers in major markets and created new avenues by which they could express their identities and challenge or reinforce gender norms. As cosmetics companies and cultural media, from magazines to novels to cinema, urged women to aspire to commercial standards of female perfection, beauty evolved as a goal to be pursued rather than a biological inheritance. The products and techniques that enabled women to embody society's feminine ideal also taught them how to fashion their bodies into objects of desire and thus offered a subversive tool of self-expression. Holly Grout explores attempts by commercial beauty culture to reconcile a standard of respectability with female sexuality, as well as its efforts to position French women within the global phenomenon of changing views on modern womanhood. Grout draws on a wide range of primary sources-hygiene manuals, professional and legal debates about the right to fabricate and distribute "medicines," advertisements for beauty products, and contemporary fiction and works of art-to explore how French women navigated changing views on femininity. Her seamless integration of gender studies with business history, aesthetics, and the history of medicine results in a textured and complex study of the relationship between the politics of womanhood and the politics of beauty.
