The New Eighteenth Century
Title | The New Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Felicity Nussbaum |
Publisher | Methuen Publishing |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
At Home in the Eighteenth Century
Title | At Home in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen G. Hague |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2021-09-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000449394 |
The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth century in the common imagination is often associated with taking tea on polished mahogany tables, a far wider world of experience remains to be introduced. At Home in the Eighteenth Century brings together factual and fictive texts and spaces to explore aspects of the typical Georgian home that we think we know from Jane Austen novels and extant country houses while also engaging with uncharacteristic and underappreciated aspects of the home. At the core of the volume is the claim that exploring eighteenth-century domesticity from a range of disciplinary vantage points can yield original and interesting questions, as well as reveal new answers. Contributions from the fields of literature, history, archaeology, art history, heritage studies, and material culture brings the home more sharply into focus. In this way At Home in the Eighteenth Century reveals a more nuanced and fluid concept of the eighteenth-century home and becomes a steppingstone to greater understanding of domestic space for undergraduate level and beyond.
The New Eighteenth-Century Home
Title | The New Eighteenth-Century Home PDF eBook |
Author | Michèle Lalande |
Publisher | Harry N. Abrams |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-05-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780810998674 |
Exploring interiors of breezy elegance, where Pop Art and industrial design mingle with patinaed highboys and carved candelabra, this book reinvents classic elements of French style, making the old new all over again.
The Social Life of Books
Title | The Social Life of Books PDF eBook |
Author | Abigail Williams |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2017-06-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0300228104 |
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
The Making of the Modern Self
Title | The Making of the Modern Self PDF eBook |
Author | Dror Wahrman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0300102518 |
Wahrman argues that toward the end of the 18th century there was a radical change in notions of self & personal identity - a sudden transformation that was a revolution in the understanding of selfhood & of identity categories including race, gender, & class.
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse
Title | The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Lonsdale |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 912 |
Release | 2009-03-26 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0191501425 |
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period's restraints and inhibitions.
Home Rule
Title | Home Rule PDF eBook |
Author | Honor Sachs |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2015-10-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 030021653X |
On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness, manhood, and patriarchal authority to help stabilize a politically fractious frontier. Honor Sachs combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging narrative to examine how conditions in Kentucky facilitated the expansion of rights for white men in ways that would become a model for citizenship in the country as a whole. Endorsed by many prominent western historians, this groundbreaking work is a major contribution to frontier scholarship.