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Book Blasted with Antiquity

Download or read book Blasted with Antiquity written by David Ellis and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and, when those with a literary background have tackled the subject, they have largely done so through what are known as period studies. In Blasted with Antiquity, David Ellis provides an alternative. Skipping nimbly from Cicero to Shakespeare, and from Wordsworth to Dickens and beyond, he discusses various aspects of old age with the help of writers across European history who have usually been regarded as worth listening to. Eschewing extended literary analyses, Ellis addresses retirement, physical decay, sex in old age, the importance of family, legacy, wills and nostalgia, as well of course as dying itself. While remaining alert to current trends, his approach is consciously that of the old way of teaching English rather than the new. Whether 'blasted with antiquity' like Falstaff in Henry IV Part Two, or with the 'shining morning face' of an unwilling student, his accessible and witty style will appeal to young and old alike.

Book The Humanism of Robert Browning

Download or read book The Humanism of Robert Browning written by Nadia O. M. Abouʼl Magd and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert Browning

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1953
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Robert Browning written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

Download or read book The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by Frederick Wilse Bateson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1940 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Skin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-15
  • ISBN : 1501731602
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Victorian Skin written by Pamela K. Gilbert and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How do we communicate with and understand each other's feelings? How does our surface, which contains us and presents us to others, function and what does it signify? As Gilbert shows, for Victorians, the skin was a text to be read. Nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical perspectives had reconfigured the purpose and meaning of this organ as more than a wrapping and instead a membrane integral to the generation of the self. Victorian writers embraced this complex perspective on skin even as sanitary writings focused on the surface of the body as a dangerous point of contact between self and others. Drawing on novels and stories by Dickens, Collins, Hardy, and Wilde, among others, along with their French contemporaries and precursors among the eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers and German idealists, Gilbert examines the understandings and representations of skin in four categories: as a surface for the sensing and expressive self; as a permeable boundary; as an alienable substance; and as the site of inherent and inscribed properties. At the same time, Gilbert connects the ways in which Victorians "read" skin to the way in which Victorian readers (and subsequent literary critics) read works of literature and historical events (especially the French Revolution.) From blushing and flaying to scarring and tattooing, Victorian Skin tracks the fraught relationship between ourselves and our skin.

Book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975

Download or read book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : 東京都立中央図書館
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1002 pages

Download or read book written by 東京都立中央図書館 and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Books Arranged by Subjects

Download or read book Catalogue of Books Arranged by Subjects written by Library Board of Western Australia and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Reprints in Series

Download or read book Catalog of Reprints in Series written by Robert Merritt Orton and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Reprints in Series

Download or read book Catalog of Reprints in Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Browning Newsletter

Download or read book The Browning Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of English Studies

Download or read book Journal of English Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books in Print

Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poetry Review

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  • Author : Stephen Phillips
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 806 pages

Download or read book Poetry Review written by Stephen Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Romance of William Morris

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  • Author : Carole G. Silver
  • Publisher : Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book The Romance of William Morris written by Carole G. Silver and published by Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: