Download or read book Percy Bysshe Shelley written by James Bieri and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shelley found a retreat on the Bay of Lerici where, joined by his friends Edward and Jane Williams, he sailed his new boat and confided darkening thoughts to Edward Trelawny. Shelley's love lyrics to Jane, his last inamorata, were written as he composed his final great work, The Triumph of Life, broken off by his untimely drowning, a controversial sailing tragedy that is considered here in detail. Shelley's fascinating posthumous life is narrated in the subsequent intermingled lives of the poet's most intimate associates."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Society Culture and Opera in Florence 1814 1830 written by Aubrey S. Garlington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, an event that signalled an end to nearly fourteen years of French domination, Florence seemed to enter a new cultural 'golden age' and by 1824 was described as 'an Earthly Paradise' by the political and liberal writer, Pietro Giordano. Politically, economically and culturally, the city prospered in this new era. After 1814 it seemed as if the Enlightenment had found a new beginning in Florence. Aubrey Garlington, a scholar of long standing in the music of early nineteenth-century Florence, considers the roles played by John Fane, Lord Burghersh, an English aristocrat, diplomat and dilettante composer together with his wife, Priscilla, in the development of the richly homogeneous culture that blossomed in Florence at this time. Burghersh, known today for being instrumental in the founding of the English Royal Academy of Music, composed six operas that were performed privately on numerous occasions at the English Embassy, his best known work being "La Fedra". Lady Burghersh became known for her painting and dilettante theatrical performances. Garlington provides a thorough re-examination of the categories 'professional' and 'dilettante' which were so important in the concept of music at this time. The notions of boundaries between public and private activity are discussed, and the operas themselves are examined specifically. Through the contemplation of the Burghershs's sixteen year stay in Florence, the significance of dilettante orientations are demonstrated to have been essential components for the city's musical and social life. Garlington draws together an impressive compilation of documentation regarding the part music played in shaping society and culture. In this way, the book will appeal not only to opera historians, musicologists and critics working on the nineteenth century, but also to historians and scholars of cultural theory.
Download or read book The Child Reader 1700 1840 written by M. O. Grenby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major study of child readers and their reading habits in the period when children's literature first became established.
Download or read book Ugo Foscolo written by E. R. Vincent and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1953, this book presents a study of Ugo Foscolo's eleven years in Regency England. Using material that was previously unknown or unpublished, the text was written with the intention of providing an insight into his struggle as an artist within the broader currents of English society. Additional notes, appendices and illustrative figures are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Foscolo, Romanticism and the Regency period.
Download or read book Shelley s Italian Experience written by Alan M. Weinberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Shelley's 'Italian experience', the present study both addresses itself to the living context which nurtured Shelley's creativity, and explores a neglected but essential component of his work. The poet's four years of self-exile in Italy (1818-1822) were, in fact, the most decisive of his career. As he responded to Italy, his poetry acquired a new subtlety and complexity of vision. Endowed with remarkably keen powers of absorption, the poet imaginatively reshaped the rich cultural heritage of Italy and the vital qualities of its landscape and climate.
Download or read book A Journey to Florence in 1817 written by Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois Campbell Bury countess of Charleville and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smell Of The Continent written by James Munson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I remember being much amused last year, when landing at Calais,’ wrote Mrs Frances Trollope in her 1835 book, Paris and the Parisians, ‘at the answer made by an old traveller to a novice ... making his first voyage. “What a dreadful smell!” said the uninitiated stranger ... “it is the smell of the continent, sir!” replied the man of experience. And so it was.’ Historians James Munson and Richard Mullen examine just what it was about the smell of the continent that so attracted British travellers in the hundred years from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of the First World War. It was the first time in history that the British, en masse, set out to discover Europe. Drawing on contemporary accounts, diaries and letters, Munson and Mullen offer a compelling portrait of the Victorians abroad, many of them convinced that their country was not only vastly superior but also the envy of the world. From the glowing review coverage: 'Pure charm' A.N. Wilson, Reader's Digest 'An entertaining and sometimes surprising, thought-provoking history' Sunday Times
Download or read book The Grand Tour Diary of Frederica Murray 1819 1820 written by Mark Guscin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1819, the Murray family set out on one of the last Grand Tours before railways forever changed the way people travelled. The eldest daughter of the Second Earl of Mansfield, Lady Frederica Murray (later Stanhope, as she married James Hamilton Stanhope, the youngest son of the 3rd Earl of Stanhope) kept a diary on the tour, which this book explores in detail. The diary has never been published (not even mentioned in any of the Grand Tour literature) and is a fascinating and essential look at the Murray/Mansfield family, and Europe at the time. Frederica was a deeply observant traveller and noted down numerous picturesque and historical details; she was also very open and sometimes even cutting in her opinions when she came across something or someone she did not like. Frederica’s diary shows a very mature 19-year-old with clear opinions on art, literature and the world around her. This book will therefore be interesting for scholars of travel, Grand Tours, and Regency England and its society, as well as anyone with an interest in travel and history.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1952 with total page 1506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Download or read book The Geographical Magazine written by Michael Huxley and published by . This book was released on with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grand Tour Lives on written by Alessandra Di Luzio and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour written by Chloe Chard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1600 to 1830. It considers the tour with reference to strategies of description and themes.
Download or read book Italian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the sections "Reviews", "Italian studies published in England", "Academica" and "A chronicle of public lectures, etc."
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 2276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bringing Travel Home to England written by Susan Lamb and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first to identify and examine the circulations and mutually constitutive relations among literature, tourism, and the wider culture in the 18th century. Gendering emerges as a key mechanism both for those who brought travel home and for those who were influenced by it in other ways.
Download or read book The Genealogists Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
