Golden Ages and Barbarous Nations
Title | Golden Ages and Barbarous Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Clare O'Halloran |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Antiquarians |
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This book places Irish antiquarianism in comparative context during the second half of the eighteenth century
Power and Identity in the Middle Ages
Title | Power and Identity in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Huw Pryce |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2007-07-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199285462 |
An engaging collection of thought-provoking essays examining power struggles and political identities in medieval Britain, featuring work from leading historians in the field. Celebrating the work of the late Rees Davies - a towering figure in the historiography of this period - the book focuses on his interests, opening up new perspectives on the political, social, and cultural history of the middle ages.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan and the Politics of Style
Title | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan and the Politics of Style PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Donovan |
Publisher | Academica Press,LLC |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1933146559 |
Recently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Sydney Owenson). The reasons are many. In this work Dr.Donovan contextualizes an important yet relatively neglected author by analyzing an emblematic Irishness that was too often dismissed in the early 19th century as excessive showmanship; the criticism was not without some basis since Owenson was an actor's daughter and grew up in the company of traveling performers. The study includes an extensive discussion of Morgan's personal papers and artifacts housed in the national Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. No previous study has fully considered this crucial archival material and its implications. In addition unpublished and hitherto unconsulted papers from the Yale University collection are also part of this original research monograph. Owenson's writing is far ranging (she is known both as a polemicist and the author of works on post restoration Italy as well as Ireland) and she commanded the friendship and respect of many early 19th c authors and poets including Byron, Shelley, Moore among many others. The table of contents includes: Introduction Body, Text and Textile in "The Wild Irish Girl" Sydney Owenson's Self-Fashioning How Sydney Owenson Played the Harp Ireland in Europe and the World: Sydney Owenson's Travel Writing Owenson in the 19th Century Irish Research Series, No.55
Imagining Nations
Title | Imagining Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Cubitt |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780719054600 |
Revisiting divisions of labour is a reflection on the making of a modern sociological classic text and its enduring influence on the discipline and beyond. Ray Pahl's 1984 book is distinctive in the sustained impact it has had on how sociologists think about, research and report on the changing nature of work and domestic life. In this timely revisiting of a landmark project, excerpts from the original are interspersed with contributions from leading researchers reflecting on the book and its effects in the ensuing three decades. The book will be of interest to researchers, students and lecturers in sociology and related disciplines.
Antiquaries
Title | Antiquaries PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary Sweet |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 2004-05-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781852853099 |
Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise.
Golden Ages and Barbarous Nations
Title | Golden Ages and Barbarous Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Clare O'Halloran |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
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This analysis of Irish antiquarian writings and activities in the late 18th century shows the extent to which views of the pre-colonial Irish past were shaped by contemporary political debates, particularly the Catholic Question, but also the debate as to the relative civility or barbarity of the native Irish.
The Iron Age
Title | The Iron Age PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1110 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Hardware |
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