Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740)
Title | Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740) PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Finnegan |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004440054 |
In Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke’s famous eastern voyage from 1737-40, together with updated biographical accounts of the author and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles).
Eleusis and Enlightenment
Title | Eleusis and Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Ferdinand Saumarez Smith |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2024-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004692304 |
The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.
The Life and Works of Robert Wood
Title | The Life and Works of Robert Wood PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Finnegan |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2022-01-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1803271779 |
The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary of his death and provides the general reader with a source book for the fascinating life and career of a much-neglected figure in the realm of Irish eighteenth-century travels and antiquarianism.
English Explorers in the East (1738-1745)
Title | English Explorers in the East (1738-1745) PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Finnegan |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2019-06-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004404228 |
In English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan offers an account of the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other. Making use of historical records, Finnegan examines the personal and professional motives of the three authors for producing their eastern travels; their methods of researching, drafting, and publicising their works while still abroad; their relationships with each other, both while travelling and on their return to England; and the legacy of their combined works. She also provides a survey of the main features (both textual and visual) of the travel books themselves.
Letters from Abroad: Letters from the continent (1736-37)
Title | Letters from Abroad: Letters from the continent (1736-37) PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Pococke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Grand tours (Education) |
ISBN | 9780956905819 |
Charming Orient Shining England
Title | Charming Orient Shining England PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Mahmoud F. Al-Ali |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2013-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1493114514 |
The Arabian Nights is a composite work consisting of popular stories originally transmitted orally and developed during several centuries, with material added somewhat haphazardly at different periods and places. This study was devoted to the impact of The Arabian Nights on four novelists of the nineteenth century: Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Meredith, and Robert Louis Stevenson. These authors were selected on the ground of their life spans, which encompassed almost the whole century. Because they are among the masters of the English novel, it is reasonable to assume that they did not content themselves with mere imitations resulting in pseudo-oriental tales. Their original creations assimilated the influences from The Arabian Nights, forming new unified structures with interwoven references and allusions, which are to be redetected.
Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich
Title | Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Schneider |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-11-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004243291 |
Only recently has Egyptology started examining ideology and its implications for our self-understanding and understanding of ancient Egypt, Egyptology, and the past as a whole. This edition presents aspects of ideology, scholarship, and individual biographies from World War I to the “Third Reich”.