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Book The English Lyceum

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  • Release : 1787
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  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book The English Lyceum written by and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Lyceum  Or  Choice of Pieces in Prose and Verse  Selected from the Best Periodical Papers  Magazines  Pamphlets and Other British Publications  Published by J W  V  Archenholtz

Download or read book The English Lyceum Or Choice of Pieces in Prose and Verse Selected from the Best Periodical Papers Magazines Pamphlets and Other British Publications Published by J W V Archenholtz written by and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arthur Schopenhauer s English Schooling

Download or read book Arthur Schopenhauer s English Schooling written by Patrick Bridgwater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988 Arthur Schopenhauer’s English Schooling examines the famous German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, and his image of England and the influences and experiences which formed that image, notably his visit to England in 1803. His philosophy, when he came to formulate it, showed the pervasive influence of his English reading, was riddled with allusions to his three months at Wimbledon School, and was indeed in many ‘English’ style; above all it was a philosophy designed as a refutation of ‘Christianity’ as understood and practised by his English headmaster, who is the invisible bête noire behind it. In the course of the book two major figures who have hitherto been known only by name are identified and their lives related. The book also examines many background figures in Schopenhauer’s English diary and the letters addressed to him in 1803. This book, which is based on a wide variety of hitherto unknown material from many different sources, will permanently modify our view of his philosophy; it also has important implications for educationalists and for all interest in the history of ideas.

Book Bare Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish

Download or read book Bare Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish written by Adam Chill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing was phenomenally popular in 18th and 19th century Britain. Aristocrats attended matches and patronized boxers, and the most important fights drew tens of thousands of spectators. Promoters of the sport claimed that it showcased the timeless and authentic ideal of English manhood--a rock of stability in changing times. Yet many of the best fighters of the era were Irish, Jewish or black. This history focuses on how boxers, journalists, politicians, pub owners and others used national, religious and racial identities to promote pugilism and its pure English pedigree, even as ethnic minorities won distinction in the sport, putting the diversity of the Empire on display.

Book 1650 1850

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  • Author : Kevin L. Cope
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2020-02-14
  • ISBN : 1684481724
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book 1650 1850 written by Kevin L. Cope and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines literature, philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences.

Book Literature  Religion  and the Evolution of Culture  1660   1780

Download or read book Literature Religion and the Evolution of Culture 1660 1780 written by Howard D. Weinbrot and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished critic traces the growing, but always threatened, trend toward political and religious tolerance from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century in Britain. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780 chronicles changes in contentious politics and religion and their varied representations in British letters from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. An uncertain trend toward tolerance and away from painful discord significantly influenced authors who reflected on and enhanced germane aspects of British literary and intellectual life. The movement was stymied during the painful Gordon Riots in June 1780, from which Britain needed to repair itself. Howard D. Weinbrot's broad-ranging interdisciplinary study considers sermons, satire, political and religious polemic, Anglo-French relations, biblical and theological commentary, Methodism, legal history, and the novel. Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780 analyzes the texts and contexts of several major and minor authors, including Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Olaudah Equiano, Maria De Fleury, Lord George Gordon, Nathaniel Lancaster, Henry Sacheverell, Tobias Smollett, and Edward Synge.

Book Helen Craik  Adelaide de Narbonne  with Memoirs of Charlotte de Cordet

Download or read book Helen Craik Adelaide de Narbonne with Memoirs of Charlotte de Cordet written by Marianna D’Ezio and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Craik’s Adelaide de Narbonne, with Memoirs of Charlotte de Cordet was published anonymously at the Minerva Press in 1800, the third of five novels that Craik wrote between 1796 and 1805. Deeply rooted in the contemporary historical milieu of her time, Craik’s novel features the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France, including the war in the Vendée as well as “The Terror”. Described by critics as a “unique hybrid of historical Gothic,” the novel is indeed permeated by Gothic elements that draw their material directly from the more celebrated novels by Ann Radcliffe and Horace Walpole. Borrowing from customary and well-oiled Gothic visual elements, from the landscapes surrounding the castle and the rock of Narbonne, to old monasteries and half-ruined edifices, Craik builds the fascinating story of the Countess Adelaide de Narbonne, whose character partly represents the author’s own rebellion against parental authority and despotism. Fashioning Adelaide de Narbonne as the traditional Gothic heroine characterized by refined sensibility and virtue in distress, who staunchly rejects the oppression of male authorities, Craik connects the story of the Countess with that of Charlotte de Cordet (Charlotte Corday), Jean-Paul Marat’s murderer, undoubtedly more than a mere “appendix” to Adelaide’s story, as the title of the novel suggests. Here reprinted and annotated for the first time, Helen Craik’s Adelaide de Narbonne, with Memoirs of Charlotte de Cordet joins the voices of numerous late eighteenth-century British women writers who openly defied the patriarchal system of values of the time, symbolically represented in the characters of Marat, Robespierre, and the whole system of the Terror in post-revolutionary France, to promote a challenge and a subversion of the traditional stereotypes of the delicate, passive woman of the age of sensibility.

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 . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge bibliography of English literature  edited by F W

Download or read book The Cambridge bibliography of English literature edited by F W written by F.W. Bateson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings   Papers

Download or read book Proceedings Papers written by Oxford Bibliographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of California Publications in Modern Philology

Download or read book University of California Publications in Modern Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enlightenment Orpheus

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  • Author : Vanessa Agnew
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-05-01
  • ISBN : 0198044356
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Enlightenment Orpheus written by Vanessa Agnew and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time. In Enlightenment Orpheus, Vanessa Agnew examines this apparent conflict, and provocatively questions the notion of an aesthetic-philosophical break between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Agnew persuasively connects the English traveler and music scholar Charles Burney with the ancient myth of Orpheus. She uses Burney as a guide through wide-ranging discussions of eighteenth-century musical travel, views on music's curative powers, interest in non-European music, and concerns about cultural identity. Arguing that what people said about music was central to some of the great Enlightenment debates surrounding such issues as human agency, cultural difference, and national identity, Agnew adds a new dimension to postcolonial studies, which has typically emphasized the literary and visual at the expense of the aural. She also demonstrates that these discussions must be viewed in context at the era's broad and well-entrenched transnational network, and emphasizes the importance of travel literature in generating knowledge at the time. A new and radically interdisciplinary approach to the question of the power of music - its aesthetic and historical interpretations and political uses - Enlightenment Orpheus will appeal to students and scholars in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, German studies, eighteenth-century history, and comparative studies.

Book German Visitors to England  1770 1795

Download or read book German Visitors to England 1770 1795 written by Percy Ewing Matheson and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Union catalogue of Periodicals

Download or read book British Union catalogue of Periodicals written by James Douglas Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: