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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 in England  to Omiah  at Otaheite  etc   By William Preston

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 in England to Omiah at Otaheite etc By William Preston written by and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman

Download or read book The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman written by Anonymous and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778) tells the story of a fictional midshipman abandoned in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, after a battle with Maori that claims the lives of ten of his shipmates. Inspired by an actual event on Captain Cook’s second voyage, Bowman’s adventures take him to increasingly sophisticated cultures—hunter/ gatherer, pastoral/nomadic, agricultural, and commercial—that dramatize stadial history in a Pacific setting. The work provocatively weaves together popular fascination with Cook’s voyages, sensational conceptions of the newly charted Pacific, contemporary ideas on human development and culture, topical satire on London life, and a fanciful castaway story. As an introduction to the cultural connections linking Pacific studies, the Scottish Enlightenment, and eighteenth-century English society and politics, The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman is unique in literary history and unsurpassed as a teaching text. Of equal importance, it marks the birth of a national literature. It is the first New Zealand novel. Historical appendices provide an exceptionally broad range of materials on the Grass Cove “massacre,” the eighteenth-century stadial theory of historical development, cannibalism, and contemporary depictions of the South Pacific and its indigenous peoples.

Book nos  1 4087  Books printed in Dublin by known printers  1602 1882  List of printers and booksellers in Dublin   v 2  nos  4088 8743  Books printed in Dublin without printer s name  Provincial towns  The works of Irish authors printed elsewhere  arranged alphabetically  Books printed elsewhere which relate to Ireland  arranged chronologically  App  I  Books and documents relating to the papacy  Deposited in the University library by the Rev  Robert James M Ghee  A  M   A  D  1840  App  II  List of books added during the compilation of the catalogue  Addenda  Notes and corrigenda   v 3  Index

Download or read book nos 1 4087 Books printed in Dublin by known printers 1602 1882 List of printers and booksellers in Dublin v 2 nos 4088 8743 Books printed in Dublin without printer s name Provincial towns The works of Irish authors printed elsewhere arranged alphabetically Books printed elsewhere which relate to Ireland arranged chronologically App I Books and documents relating to the papacy Deposited in the University library by the Rev Robert James M Ghee A M A D 1840 App II List of books added during the compilation of the catalogue Addenda Notes and corrigenda v 3 Index written by Cambridge University Library. Bradshaw Irish Collection and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sentimental Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Brewer
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2005-06-08
  • ISBN : 0374529779
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book A Sentimental Murder written by John Brewer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-06-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted to take his own life. Instead he was arrested, tried and hanged. In this fascinating new book, John Brewer, a leading historian of eighteenth-century England, asks what this peculiar little story was all about... Brewer, in tracing Ray's fate through these protean changes in journalism, memoir, and melodrama, offers an unforgettable account of the relationships among the three protagonists and their different places in English society--and assesses the shifting balance between storytelling and fact, past and present that inheres in all history." -- Amazon.com viewed December 7, 2020.

Book A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library  Cambridge

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge written by Cambridge University Library. Bradshaw Irish Collection and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge written by Charles Sayle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1916 three-volume catalogue of over 8,000 books and pamphlets from or about Ireland, printed between 1600 and 1900.

Book Mr Bligh s Bad Language

    Book Details:
  • 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 The Scots Magazine

Download or read book The Scots Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Intellectual History

Download or read book Global Intellectual History written by Samuel Moyn and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global intellectual history," featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline. The contributors to Global Intellectual History explore the different ways in which one can think about the production, dissemination, and circulation of "global" ideas and ask whether global intellectual history can indeed produce legitimate narratives. They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit within current conceptions of global frames and processes of globalization and proto-globalization, and they distinguish between ideas of the global and those of the transnational, identifying what each contributes to intellectual history. A crucial guide, this collection sets conceptual coordinates for readers eager to map an emerging area of study.

Book Routledge Library Editions  Women  Feminism and Literature

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Women Feminism and Literature written by Isobel Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1979 and 1994, Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature offers a selection of scholarship from a time of great change in feminist studies and literary studies. Topics cover all aspects of women's literature, gender and feminism through literary criticism and the work of women literary theorists.

Book New Feminist Discourses

Download or read book New Feminist Discourses written by Isobel Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered knowledge and the implications of accounts of gendered language, cultural restraints on the representation of sexuality, women’s agency, cultural and political change, a feminist aesthetics and new readings of race and class. This variety is given coherence by a unity of aim – to forge new feminist discourses by addressing conceptual and cultural questions central to problems of gender and sexual difference. The topics of discussion range from matrilinear thought to seventeenth-century prophecy; the poetry of Amelia Lanyer to Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs; from Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf to eighteenth-century colonial painting of the South Pacific; from medieval romance to feminist epistemology. The essays utilise and question the disciplines of literary criticism, art history, photography, psychoanalysis, Marxist history and post-structuralist theory.

Book General catalogue of printed books

Download or read book General catalogue of printed books written by British museum. Dept. of printed books and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cook   Omai

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michelle Hetherington
  • Publisher : National Library Australia
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0642107319
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book Cook Omai written by Michelle Hetherington and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2001 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas draws on the Library's collections and the documentary record to explore a fascinating chapter in the history of the Pacific, and European concerns about the nature of humankind and the world as they saw it. The catalogue and exhibition provide insight into the legacy of Omai, caught, as he was, between two worlds.

Book Monstrous Dreams of Reason

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Jean Rosenthal
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780838754603
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Monstrous Dreams of Reason written by Laura Jean Rosenthal and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays demonstrate how profoundly eighteenth-century formulations of gender, race, class, and sexuality have, through their challenges to a less empirical, rational, and universalizing past, set the terms for debates in the centuries that followed. They explore a wide range of texts, from Georgic poetry to crime stories, from illness narratives to travel journals, from theatrical performances to medical discourse, and from political treatises to the novel."--BOOK JACKET.

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division written by New York Public Library. Rare Book Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.