The Polite repository [afterw.] Peacock's polite repository
Title | The Polite repository [afterw.] Peacock's polite repository PDF eBook |
Author | Peacock and Mansfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1786 |
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Peacock's Polite Repository Or Pocket Comparaon
Title | Peacock's Polite Repository Or Pocket Comparaon PDF eBook |
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Pages | 146 |
Release | 1837 |
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Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record
Title | Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 1024 |
Release | 1867 |
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Title | Publishers' circular and booksellers' record PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 1094 |
Release | 1867 |
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The Monthly Literary Advertiser
Title | The Monthly Literary Advertiser PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 320 |
Release | 1834 |
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Grammars of Approach
Title | Grammars of Approach PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Wall |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2019-02-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 022646797X |
In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of “approach.” In architecture, the term “approach” changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of an estate “through the most interesting part of the grounds,” as landscape designer Humphrey Repton put it. The shift from the long straight avenue to the winding approach, Wall shows, swung the perceptual balance away from the great house onto the personal experience of the visitor. At the same time, the grammatical and typographical landscape was shifting in tandem, away from objects and Things (and capitalized common Nouns) to the spaces in between, like punctuation and the “lesser parts of speech”. The implications for narrative included new patterns of syntactical architecture and the phenomenon of free indirect discourse. Wall examines the work of landscape theorists such as Repton, John Claudius Loudon, and Thomas Whately alongside travel narratives, topographical views, printers’ manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, and the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen to reveal a new landscaping across disciplines—new grammars of approach in ways of perceiving and representing the world in both word and image.
Selling Ancestry
Title | Selling Ancestry PDF eBook |
Author | Stéphane Jettot |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 019286596X |
Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories help us reconsider how ancestry and genealogy became objects of widespread commercialization in the 18th century. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate society, they can be used by historians to explore attitudes towards social status and political events.