First Editions of English XVIII-XIX Century and American XIX Century Authors, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Including the Famous Emma Isola Album [and a Notebook Kept by Percy and Mary Shelley]
Title | First Editions of English XVIII-XIX Century and American XIX Century Authors, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Including the Famous Emma Isola Album [and a Notebook Kept by Percy and Mary Shelley] PDF eBook |
Author | Parke-Bernet Galleries |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
First Editions of English XVIII-XIX Century and American XIX Century Authors
Title | First Editions of English XVIII-XIX Century and American XIX Century Authors PDF eBook |
Author | John Alden Spoor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Letters of Mary W. Shelley
Title | Letters of Mary W. Shelley PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2017-02-19 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780243429127 |
Excerpt from Letters of Mary W. Shelley: Mostly Unpublished; With Introduction and Notes Year Book of The Bibliophile Society.following extraordinary list of works that She read in the first year. Twenty-nine of these, in addition to twenty-three others, were read by Shelley in the same year. 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.
Connecting Women
Title | Connecting Women PDF eBook |
Author | Barton C. Hacker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Literature and society |
ISBN | 9781944466442 |
« Women's networks proliferated during the long nineteenth century in the Atlantic World and began spreading globally. Abetted by transformative changes in communication and transportation (the subject of the first chapter), women established links among themselves, sometimes informally, sometimes as part of formal organizations. Most goal-oriented networks, particularly those with social and political agendas, were personal, national or transnational in nature and inevitably excluded those who did not share the goal. Such activist networks and their influences are the main focus of Part One. Topics addressed include women's national and international networks in British temperance associations; British anti-slavery societies; Italian crime syndicates; the Istanbul region of the Ottoman Empire; Philippine suffragism, early twentieth-century Portuguese political organizations, and Great War relief efforts in France. The chapters in Part Two examine the diverse literary networks that women writers enjoyed, abided, or disdained during the long nineteenth century. Included are the themes of British female utopia and dystopia; how the work of some British women poets both affected and reflected the variety of networks in which they were enmeshed; the intensely personal networks of American writers Mary Moody Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Emily Dickinson, and Alice James; Salem witches reimagined as Romantic heroines by American novelists Caroline Rosina Derby and Ella Taylor; the efforts of Southern autobiographers Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Avery Meriwether early in the twentieth century to negotiate a place for themselves and the South in American national history; and the significance of women's networks present in the South and absent in Brazil as depicted in Evelyn Scott's 1923 memoir. »--
Art That Changed the World
Title | Art That Changed the World PDF eBook |
Author | DK |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1465421203 |
Experience the uplifting power of art on this breathtaking visual tour of 2,500 paintings and sculptures created by more than 700 artists from Michelangelo to Damien Hirst. This beautiful book brings you the very best of world art from cave paintings to Neoexpressionism. Enjoy iconic must-see works, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Monet's Waterlilies and discover less familiar artists and genres from all parts of the globe. Art That Changed the World covers the full sweep of world art, including the Ming era in China, and Japanese, Hindu, and Indigenous Australian art. It analyses recurring themes such as love and religion, explaining key genres from Romanesque to Conceptual art. Art That Changed the World explores each artist's key works and vision, showing details of their technique, such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and traces how one genre informed another - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, and how Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese prints. Lavishly illustrated throughout, look no further for your essential guide to the pantheon of world art.
Hidden Histories
Title | Hidden Histories PDF eBook |
Author | D. Medina Lasansky |
Publisher | didapress |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2018-01-10 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 8833380114 |
Tuscany is a landscape whose cultural construction is complicated and multi-layered. It is this very complexity that this book seeks to untangle. By revealing hidden histories, we learn how food, landscape and architecture are intertwined, as well as the extent to which Italian design and contemporary consumption patterns form a legacy that draws upon the Romantic longings of a century before. In the process, this book reveals the extent to which Tuscany has been constructed by Anglos — and what has been distorted, idealized and even overlooked in the process.
The Return of Ulysses
Title | The Return of Ulysses PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Hall |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2008-01-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857718304 |
Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the vengeful slaying of the suitors of his beautiful wife Penelope, the stirring adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst the most durable in human culture. The picaresque return of the wandering pirate-king is one of the most popular texts of all time, crossing East-West divides and inspiring poets and film-makers worldwide. But why, over three thousand years, has the Odyssey's appeal proved so remarkably resilient and long-lasting? In her much-praised book Edith Hall explains the enduring fascination of Homer's epic in terms of its extraordinary susceptibility to adaptation. Not only has the story reflected a myriad of different agendas, but - from the tragedies of classical Athens to modern detective fiction, film, travelogue and opera - it has seemed perhaps uniquely fertile in generating new artistic forms. Cultural texts as diverse as Joyce's Ulysses, Suzanne Vega's Calypso, Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, the Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou?, Daniel Vigne's Le Retour de Martin Guerre and Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain all show that Odysseus is truly a versatile hero. His travels across the wine-dark Aegean are journeys not just into the mind of one of the most brilliantly creative of all the ancient Greek writers. They are as much a voyage beyond the boundaries of a narrative which can plausibly lay claim to being the quintessential global phenomenon.