Author: David C. Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
“The” Illustrated London News
The Travels of Dean Mahomet
Author: Dean Mahomet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
Romantic Cartographies
Author: Sally Bushell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108603173
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to explore the reach and significance of cartographic practice in Romantic-period culture. Revealing the diverse ways in which the period sought to map and spatialise itself, the volume also considers the engagement of our own digital cultures with Romanticism's 'map-mindedness'. Original, exploratory essays engage with a wide range of cartographic projects, objects and experiences in Britain, and globally. Subjects range from Wordsworth, Clare and Walter Scott, to Romantic board games and geographical primers, to reveal the pervasiveness of the cartographic imagination in private and public spheres. Bringing together literary analysis, creative practice, geography, cartography, history, politics and contemporary technologies – just as the cartographic enterprise did in the Romantic period itself – Romantic Cartographies enriches our understanding of what it means to 'map' literature and culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108603173
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to explore the reach and significance of cartographic practice in Romantic-period culture. Revealing the diverse ways in which the period sought to map and spatialise itself, the volume also considers the engagement of our own digital cultures with Romanticism's 'map-mindedness'. Original, exploratory essays engage with a wide range of cartographic projects, objects and experiences in Britain, and globally. Subjects range from Wordsworth, Clare and Walter Scott, to Romantic board games and geographical primers, to reveal the pervasiveness of the cartographic imagination in private and public spheres. Bringing together literary analysis, creative practice, geography, cartography, history, politics and contemporary technologies – just as the cartographic enterprise did in the Romantic period itself – Romantic Cartographies enriches our understanding of what it means to 'map' literature and culture.
The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County
Author: John Britton
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Streets with a Story
Author: Eric A. Willats
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951187104
Category : Islington (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951187104
Category : Islington (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A Topographical History of Surrey
Author: Edward Wedlake Brayley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surrey (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surrey (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
The Prisoners of War
Author: Joe Randolph Ackerley
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667
Author: Peter Mundy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description