Download or read book Popular Literature and the Construction of British National Identity 1707 1850 written by John A. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, a group of Britons began to apply quantitative analysis to policy. This they called 'political arithmetic'. Applying mathematical method to the study of the practical problems of statecraft and commerce, they made extensive use of observed data and pioneered the use of actuarial tables. This study explores to what extent they owed their ideas to Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, etc; and whether they did indeed use Baconian method.
Download or read book The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth Century British Fiction written by A. Cozzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from canonical Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations, and Amendment Acts. It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issues of race, class, gender, regionalism, urbanization, colonialism, and imperialism in order to discover how national identity and Otherness are constructed and internalized.
Download or read book British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793 1840 written by Maureen McCue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities. Dr McCue examines poetry, plays, novels, travel writing, exhibition catalogues, early guidebooks and private experiences recorded in letters and diaries by canonical and noncanonical authors, including Felicia Hemans, William Buchanan, Henry Sass, Pierce Egan, William Hazlitt, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Anna Jameson, Maria Graham Callcott and Samuel Rogers. Her exploration of the idea of connoisseurship shows the ways in which a knowledge of Italian art became a key marker of cultural standing that was no longer limited to artists and aristocrats, while her chapter on the literary production of post-Waterloo Britain traces the development of a critical vocabulary equally applicable to the visual arts and literature. In offering cultural, historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers, Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism.
Download or read book Diana Self Interest and British National Identity written by John A. Taylor and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public display of grief that accompanied the funeral of the late Princess of Wales drew attention to the many Britons who had found an affinity with Diana. The author of this book argues that Britain underwent a change in values and a shift in national identity during Diana's royal life.
Download or read book Civility written by Benet Davetian and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-04-18 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cut off in traffic? Bumped without apology on the subway? Forced to listen to a profane conversation in a public space? In today's Western societies, many feel that there has been a noticeable and marked decrease in mutual consideration in both public and private settings. Are we less civil now than in the past? Benet Davetian's masterful study Civility: A Cultural History responds to this question through a historical, social, and psychological discussion of the civility practices in three nations - England, France, and the United States. Davetian's rich, multi-dimensional review of civility from 1200 to the present day provides an in-depth analysis of the social and personal psychology of human interaction and charts a new course for the study and understanding of civility and civil society. Civility addresses major topics in public discourse today regarding the ideals and practices of civility and the possibility of a future civility ethic capable of inspiring cooperation across cultural and national boundaries.
Download or read book Collecting Women written by Chantel M. Lavoie and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the place of women writers in anthologies and other literary collections in eighteenth-century England. It explores and contextualizes the ways in which two different kinds of printed material--poetic miscellanies and biographical collections--complemented one another in defining expectations about the woman writer. Far more than the single-authored text, it was the collection in one form or another that invested poems and their authors with authority. By attending to this fascinating cultural context, Chantel Lavoie explores how women poets were placed posthumously in the world of eighteenth-century English letters. Investigating the lives and works of four well known poets--Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch, and Elizabeth Rowe--Lavoie illuminates the way in which celebrated women were collected alongside their poetry, the effect of collocation on individual reputations, and the intersection between bibliography and biography as female poets themselves became curiosities. In so doing, Collecting Women contributes to the understanding of the intersection of cultural history, canon formation, and literary collecting in eighteenth-century England.
Download or read book Edible Ideologies written by Kathleen LeBesco and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edible Ideologies argues that representations of food—in literature and popular fiction, cookbooks and travel guides, war propaganda, women's magazines, television and print advertisements—are not just about nourishment or pleasure. Contributors explore how these various modes of representation, reflecting prevailing attitudes and assumptions about food and food practices, function instead to circulate and transgress dominant cultural ideologies. Addressing questions concerning whose interests are served by a particular food practice or habit and what political ends are fulfilled by the historical changes that lead from one practice to another in Western culture, the essays offer a rich historical narrative that moves from the construction of the nineteenth-century English gentleman to the creation of two of today's iconic figures in food culture, Julia Child and Martha Stewart. Along the way, readers will encounter World War I propaganda, holocaust and Sephardic cookbooks, the Rosenbergs, German tour guides, fast food advertising, food packaging, and chocolate, and will find food for thought on the meanings of everything from camembert to Velveeta, from salads to burgers, and from tikka masala to Campbell's soup.
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Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 2362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Covel s a Just and Temperate Defence of the Five Books of Ecclesiastical Polity Written by Richard Hooker written by William Covell and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covel's entire text is reprinted here, unabridged, in Benjamin Hanbury's (Covel's 19th-century editor) version. It has been set in fresh type specifically for this new edition. This reprint will illuminate the current discussion of English national identity.
Download or read book True Whigs and Honest Tories The arc of empire written by Thomas S. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Whigs and Honest Tories is a two-volume study of the social, cultural and philosophical milieu that generated the American Revolution. The recent convergence of anarchist, feminist and ecological philosophy, combined with general systems theory and new ideas about language and psychology, has begun to generate a post-Western, "Green" way of looking at the world. Historiography is striving to keep up, and this book is a first step in a Green direction. It is intended to raise more questions than it answers, and to suggest a wide range of new avenues for historians to explore. Drawing on familiar sources and influential secondary works, Martin wrests an oft-told tale out of its Western moorings and offers an entirely new perspective. Volume II of this ambitious work discusses the clash of elites and ideas prior to the American Revolution.
Download or read book True Whigs and Honest Tories The unraveling of empire written by Thomas S. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Whigs and Honest Tories is a two-volume study of the social, cultural and philosophical milieu that generated the American Revolution. The recent convergence of anarchist, feminist and ecological philosophy, combined with general systems theory and new ideas about language and psychology, has begun to generate a post-Western, "Green" way of looking at the world. Historiography is striving to keep up, and this book is a first step in a Green direction. It is intended to raise more questions than it answers, and to suggest a wide range of new avenues for historians to explore. Drawing on familiar sources and influential secondary works, Martin wrests an oft-told tale out of its Western moorings and offers an entirely new perspective. Volume II of this ambitious work discusses the clash of elites and ideas prior to the American Revolution.
Download or read book Comedy Without a Purpose written by Melissa A. Schaub and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850 written by Julia Stapleton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Political intellectuals and public identities in Britain since 1850 will be of interest to scholars and advanced undergraduates in the fields of political thought and British intellectual and cultural history. It will also be of interest to a wider community of writers and commentators on the politics of English and British national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Imagology written by Manfred Beller and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and national (cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73 contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures and cultures over many centuries; [2] an encyclopedic survey of the stereotypes and characterizations traditionally ascribed to various ethnicities and nationalities; and [3] a conspectus of relevant concepts in various cultural fields and scholarly disciplines. The volume as a whole, as well as each of the articles, has extensive bibliographies for further critical reading. Imagologyis intended both for students and for senior scholars, facilitating not only a first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and poetics of national stereotypes, but also a deepening of our understanding and analytical perspective by interdisciplinary and comparative contextualization and extensive cross-referencing.
Download or read book William Wallace written by Graeme Morton and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace. Freed from the historian's bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot has long been incorporated into the ideology of nationalism.
