The Virtuosi's Museum
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Release | : 1778 |
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Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1778 |
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Author | : Paul Sandby |
Publisher | : Gale Ecco, Print Editions |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2018-04-18 |
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ISBN | : 9781379583820 |
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T109568 The titlepage is engraved. Comprising 108 plates each with a leaf of letterpress description. The plates are dated between 1778 and 1781. London: printed for G. Kearsly, 1778 [-81]. [222]p.,108 plates; obl.4°
Author | : Wendy Joy Darby |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000323986 |
In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media. The popularity of walking and walking clubs perhaps provides the most compelling evidence of the important role landscape plays in people's lives. Not only is individual identity rooted in experiencing landscape, but under the multiple impacts of social fragmentation, global economic restructuring and European integration, membership in recreational walking groups helps recover a sense of community. Moving between the 1750s and the present, this transdisciplinary book explores the powerful role of landscape in the formation of historical class relations and national identity. The author's direct field experience of fell walking in the Lake District and with various locally based clubs includes investigation of the roles gender and race play. She shows how the politics of access to open spaces has implications beyond the immediate geographical areas considered and ultimately involves questions of citizenship.
Author | : Nigel Leask |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198850026 |
Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
Author | : Charles Hutt |
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Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 1879 |
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Author | : John Britton |
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Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : William Upcott |
Publisher | : London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Bibliotheca topographica britannica |
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Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1778 |
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Author | : Elizabeth McCracken |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473594731 |
'One of my favourite writers' Nick Hornby One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half-brother. And on a trip to a water park with their son, two fathers each confront a deep-rooted personal fear. With sentences that crackle and spark and showcase her trademark wit, McCracken shows how the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. 'McCracken has a gift for spotting the comic potential in situations many of us have endured... Her prose is stippled with just-so observations' Observer 'McCracken is a totally assured performer: even seemingly throwaway perceptions are often memorably poetic, and there is a hint of melancholy under the comedy' Sunday Times 'This incisive, warm-blooded collection of stories is populated by outsiders... McCracken illuminates qualities of human nature through fragments of her characters' lives' New Yorker
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2020-03-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'A Virtuoso's Collection' is a mesmerizing collection of short stories from his larger work 'Mosses from an Old Manse'. The book showcases Hawthorne's signature gothic literary style, filled with dark themes, moral allegories, and intricate characterizations. Each story within the collection is intricately crafted, drawing readers into haunting narratives that explore the complexities of human nature and society in a Puritanical New England setting. Hawthorne's vivid imagery and careful attention to psychological depth make 'A Virtuoso's Collection' a captivating read for those interested in 19th-century American literature. Known for his exploration of guilt, sin, and redemption, Hawthorne's work continues to resonate with readers today. It is through his ability to intertwine the supernatural with the everyday that Hawthorne creates a truly immersive reading experience. I highly recommend 'A Virtuoso's Collection' to those seeking to delve into the intricacies of Hawthorne's literary genius and the dark corners of the human soul.