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Book William Wetmore Story and His Friends  Vol  1 of 2

Download or read book William Wetmore Story and His Friends Vol 1 of 2 written by Henry James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Wetmore Story and His Friends, Vol. 1 of 2: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections It may appear a new application of the truth that honour, where honour, as to any frank advance, attaches, is especially due to the light skirmishers, the eclaireurs, who have gone before ; yet there are occasions on which it comes home to us that, so far as we are contentedly cosmopolite to-day and move about in a world that has been made for us both larger and more amusing, we owe much of our extension and diversion to those comparatively few who, amid difficulties and dangers, set the example and made out the road. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book William Wetmore Story and His Friends  Vol  1 of 2

Download or read book William Wetmore Story and His Friends Vol 1 of 2 written by Henry James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Wetmore Story and His Friends, Vol. 1 of 2: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections The old relation, social, personal, aesthetic, of the American world to the European - a relation expressed practically, at the time, of course, in such active experiments as might be - is as charming a subject as the student of manners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book William Wetmore Story and His Friends  Vol  1

Download or read book William Wetmore Story and His Friends Vol 1 written by Henry James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Wetmore Story and His Friends, Vol. 1: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections There came a moment when the spell in question began to weaken, and in that subtle revolution our subject, could we fully give our selves to it, would find its dramatic climax. Its limit is marked, in our own direction, its modern side, by two or three such pregnant transitions. They accord with many other things that repre sent the inevitable quickening of the pace. I think of the American who started on his Wom derjahre after the Civil War quite as one of the moderns divided by a chasm from his progenitors and elder brothers, carried on the wave as they were not, and all supplied with introductions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book William Wetmore Story and His Friends

Download or read book William Wetmore Story and His Friends written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book WILLIAM WETMORE STORY   HIS FR

Download or read book WILLIAM WETMORE STORY HIS FR written by Henry 1843-1916 James and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Wetmore Story and His Friends   From Letters  Diaries and Recollections

Download or read book William Wetmore Story and His Friends From Letters Diaries and Recollections written by Henry James and published by Adams Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1903, and in two volumes. Contents of Volume 1; Early years and early work, Early Roman years, Middle Roman years......Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Lives of Victorian Literary Figures  Part III  Volume 1

Download or read book Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part III Volume 1 written by Valerie Sanders and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton (1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction of Manchester working-class life. Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District . Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle moved in the opposite direction - from rural Scotland to London's Cheyne Walk. This title focuses on writers for whom 'the centre' was a pressing concern. The three volumes that comprise a set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary persons: John Ruskin, Elzabeth Gaskell and the Carlyles.

Book I Almost Forgot

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  • Author : Daniel Naegele
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2023-01-10
  • ISBN : 0262047128
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book I Almost Forgot written by Daniel Naegele and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe—letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard—clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition. Colin Rowe (1920–1999) was one of the great architectural historians of the twentieth century, publishing the influential works The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (1976) and Collage City (1978). While his written work was rigorous and authoritative, his lectures and letters were more casual, “carefully careless,” both witty and erudite. I Almost Forgot gathers twenty-three such writings—letters, essays, lectures, a postcard, and a eulogy. Both edifying and entertaining, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, occasionally scathing, they fill in personal details and clarify key concepts in Rowe’s work. In these writings, Rowe tells of the “Corbu superstructure upon a beaux-arts base” that refugee Polish architects and their students introduced to his alma mater, the University of Liverpool, in the early 1940s. He characterizes his controversial essay “The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa” as a “pretty clever but, otherwise, perfectly innocent little article,” and reports that Le Corbusier’s Villa Schwob “played an entirely disproportionate role in my mental life.” Rowe’s voice and opinions are strong in his discussions of architecture, current events, and his own life and work. Each piece begins with a brief introduction by the volume editor. The writings are illustrated by images of Rowe’s drawings, letters, and postcards; photographs and drawings of Rowe’s only built work; and illustrations chosen by Rowe for lectures.

Book The Inheritance of Genius   Thackeray Vol 1

Download or read book The Inheritance of Genius Thackeray Vol 1 written by John Aplin and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first of two volumes anticipating the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not only the author's life, but also the cosmopolitan and literary worlds inhabited by his two daughters, Minny and Annie. When Thackeray died in 1863, the two sisters were forced to find their own way forward. Minny would marry Leslie Stephen, later father of Virginia Woolf, and die at only thirty-five; Annie, encouraged in early years by her father, would herself emerge as a successful novelist, though one always living, albeit willingly, within her father's shadow. Drawing continuously on the letters, diaries, journals and notebooks of the Thackerays and their circle, Aplin sheds light on this remarkable man's family, and the effect that his life, death and legacy had on those closest to him. The book will appeal not just to those interested in Thackeray and the Victorians, but also to readers of biography, womenis studies and memoirs, and to followers of Viriginia Woolf and Bloomsbury.

Book Lives of Victorian Literary Figures  Part II  Volume 1

Download or read book Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part II Volume 1 written by Simon Avery and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes that comprise this set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary partnerships. These are the Brownings, Brontes and the Rossettis.

Book The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors  1891 1904

Download or read book The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors 1891 1904 written by Charles Wells Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between Women

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  • Author : Sharon Marcus
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-10
  • ISBN : 1400830850
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Between Women written by Sharon Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law. Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

Book Roman Holidays

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  • Author : Robert K. Martin
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2005-04-01
  • ISBN : 1587294044
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Roman Holidays written by Robert K. Martin and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring essays by twelve prominent American literature scholars, Roman Holidaysexplores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome. The increase in American travel to Italy during the nineteenth century was partly a product of improved conditions of travel. As suggested in the title, Italy served nineteenth-century writers and artists as a kind of laboratory site for encountering Others and “other” kinds of experience. No doubt Italy offered a place of holiday—a momentary escape from the familiar—but the journey to Rome, a place urging upon the visitor a new and more complex sense of history, also forced a reexamination of oneself and one's identity. Writers and artists found their religious, political, and sexual assumptions challenged. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun has a prominent place in this collection: as Henry James commented in his study of Hawthorne, the book was “part of the intellectual equipment of the Anglo-Saxon visitor to Rome.” The essayists also examine works by James, Fuller, Melville, Douglass, Howells, and other writers as well as such sculptors as Hiram Powers, William Wetmore Story, and Harriet Hosmer. Bringing contemporary concerns about gender, race, and class to bear upon nineteenth-century texts, Roman Holidays is an especially timely contribution to nineteenth-century American studies.

Book The Influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Upon the Poetry of Robert Browning

Download or read book The Influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Upon the Poetry of Robert Browning written by Helen Van Riper Gill and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portrait of a Novel  Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Download or read book Portrait of a Novel Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece written by Michael Gorra and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of hisgreatest novel.

Book 1891 1904

Download or read book 1891 1904 written by Charles Wells Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to English Literature  1830 1914

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1830 1914 written by Joanne Shattock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of essays on Victorian themes, genres and authors, aimed at students and lecturers.