Essay on the Belle (Balliol) dynasty
Author | : Robert-Adelsohn Bels |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Robert-Adelsohn Bels |
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Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Ann C. Colley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2016-02-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134766459 |
What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back exotic animals and birds for study and classification by anatomists and zoologist, it soon became apparent that collecting skins rather than live animals or birds was a relatively more manageable endeavor. Colley looks at the collecting, exhibiting, and portraying of animal skins to show their importance as trophies of empire and representations of identity. While a zoo might display skins to promote and glorify Britain’s colonial achievements, Colley suggests that the reality of collecting was characterized more by chaos than imperial order. For example, Edward Lear’s commissioned illustrations of the Earl of Derby’s extensive collection challenge the colonial’s or collector’s commanding gaze, while the Victorian public demonstrated a yearning to connect with their own wildness by touching the skins of animals. Colley concludes with a discussion of the metaphorical uses of wild skins by Gerard Manley Hopkins and other writers, exploring the idea of skin as a locus of memory and touch where one’s past can be traced in the same way that nineteenth-century mapmakers charted a landscape. Throughout the book Colley calls upon recent theories about the nature and function of skin and touch to structure her discussion of the Victorian fascination with wild animal skins.
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Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Viscount Milner |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781409962144 |
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (1854-1925) was a controversial German-born British statesman and colonial administrator. He was noted for Milner's Kindergarten, a group of young men he mentored and who in some cases became important figures in running the British Empire and for his key influence on South African history, through the pursuit of British hegemony. He was educated first at Tubingen, then at King's College London and under Jowett as a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford from 1872 to 1876. In 1881 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple and joined the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette under John Morley, becoming assistant editor under W. T. Stead. In 1885 he abandoned journalism, and became the Liberal candidate for the Harrow division of Middlesex in the general election, but was defeated. It was by Goschen's influence that in 1889 he was made under-secretary of finance in Egypt. In 1910 he became a founder of The Round Table - A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire, which helped to promote the cause of imperial federation.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004400699 |
Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.
Author | : David Hume |
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Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Philosophers |
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Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Current events |
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Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Anya Seton |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544222881 |
John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.
Author | : Algernon Charles Swinburne |
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Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Atalanta (Greek mythology) |
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