Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Nigel Leask and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Malcolm Bradbury and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the 1960s, a British writer accepts an academic post in America for a year that he’ll never forget English author James Walker has three books to his name, each greeted with middling success and then promptly forgotten. But his résumé is significant enough to earn him a yearlong appointment at Benedict Arnold University as the American college’s writer in residence. At Benedict Arnold, Walker is something of a celebrity—a firebrand of 1960s British literary culture whose work, though perhaps met with shrugs at home, is the subject of vibrant scholarly criticism among American academics. Walker, of course, is not quite what some were expecting, and culture clashes abound as he encounters the tropes of American academia in the sixties. Fusty, buttoned-up professors, spirited advocates of free love, and aggressively ambitious colleagues collide to ensure that Walker’s year in America will be anything but ordinary.
Download or read book Stepping Westward written by M. E. Francis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English novel set in the counties of Dorset and Lancashire. Like most of her other novels, the West Country setting of Dorset features strongly and the local dialect is reproduced in the speech of the characters. This novel features Sally Roberts known as 'Tranter Sally' on account of her occupation.
Download or read book The Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge written by Robert A. Morace and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the overlooked works of Bradbury and Lodge in terms of their critical reception, Bakhtin's theory of the dialogical novel, and their relation to British literature and contemporary literature in general. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Download or read book Wordsworth and the Zen Mind written by John G. Rudy and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies Wordsworth in the context of Zen thought and art.
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Wordsworth written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Major Works written by William Wordsworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the essence of his work and thinking.
Download or read book Lithuania written by Thomas Lane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lithuania restored her independence, after half a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the failed Moscow coup in August 1991. As the multi-national Soviet state disintegrated, Lithuania evolved, without war or violence, from a communist state and a command economy to a liberal democracy, a free market, and a society guaranteeing human and minority rights. Lithuania therefore offers a notable example of peaceful transition, all the more impressive in the light of the bloody conflict elsewhere in the former Soviet Union of Yugoslavia, where the aspirations to independence of the constituent republics were either violently resisted or dissolved into inter-ethnic violence. Equally remarkable has been Lithuania's determination to 'return to Europe' after half a century of separation, even at the price of submerging its recently restored sovereign rights in the supranational European Union. The cost of membership in western economic and security organizations are judged to be worth paying to prevent Lithuania's being drawn once again into a putative Russian sphere of influence. On the threshold of a new millennium therefore, Lithuania has made a pragmatic accommodation to the demands of becoming a modern European state, whilst vigorously resisting the dilution of her rich cultural and historical traditions. These twin themes of accommodation and resistance are Lithuania's historical legacy to the current generations of Lithuanians as they integrate into European institutions and continue the modernization process.
Download or read book Stepping Heavenward written by Elizabeth Prentiss and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stepping Heavenward Illustr ed written by Elizabeth Prentiss and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Romantic Writers and the West Country written by N. Roe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity.
Download or read book The Walk written by Jeffrey Cane Robinson and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Walk," a meditation on walking and on the literature of walking, ruminates on this pervasive, even commonplace, modern image. It is not so much an argument as a journey along the path of literature, noting the occasions and settings, the pleasures and possibilities of different types of walking--through the country or city, during day or night, alone or with someone--and the literatures--the poems, essays, stories, novels, and diaries--walking has produced. Jeffrey C. Robinson's discussion is less criticism than appreciation: with an autobiographical bent, he leads the reader through Romantic, modern, and contemporary literature to show us the shared pleasures of reading, writing, and walking.
Download or read book Stepping Heavenward and Aunt Jane s Hero Illustrated written by Elizabeth Prentiss and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stepping Heavenward A Tale of Home Life By the Author of The Flower of the Family Mrs Elizabeth Prentiss written by Elizabeth PRENTISS and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Poems of William Wordsworth written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Malcolm Bradbury and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the 1960s, a British writer accepts an academic post in America for a year that he’ll never forget English author James Walker has three books to his name, each greeted with middling success and then promptly forgotten. But his résumé is significant enough to earn him a yearlong appointment at Benedict Arnold University as the American college’s writer in residence. At Benedict Arnold, Walker is something of a celebrity—a firebrand of 1960s British literary culture whose work, though perhaps met with shrugs at home, is the subject of vibrant scholarly criticism among American academics. Walker, of course, is not quite what some were expecting, and culture clashes abound as he encounters the tropes of American academia in the sixties. Fusty, buttoned-up professors, spirited advocates of free love, and aggressively ambitious colleagues collide to ensure that Walker’s year in America will be anything but ordinary.
Download or read book Stepping Heavenward By the author of The Flower of the Family i e Elizabeth Prentiss written by Elizabeth PRENTISS and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
