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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India
Author: John Neal and Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture
Author: Edward WattsPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611484200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital participant in the business of letters in America over his sixty-year career.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William JerdanThe London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: The Treble Almanack for the Year ...
Author: John Wilkes
Author: Arthur H. CashPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030013309X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize Finalist: A biography of the wildly colorful eighteenth-century British politician who became “the toast of American revolutionaries” (Booklist). One of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (1726–97) is remembered as the father of the British free press, a defender of civil and political liberties—and a hero to American colonists. Wilkes’s political career was rancorous, involving duels, imprisonments in the Tower of London, and the Massacre of St. George’s Fields, in which seven of his supporters were shot to death by government troops. He was equally famous for his “private” life—as a confessed libertine, a member of the notorious Hellfire Club, and the author of what has been called the dirtiest poem in the English language. This lively biography draws a full portrait of John Wilkes from his childhood days through his heyday as a journalist and agitator, his defiance of government prosecutions for libel and obscenity, his fight against exclusion from Parliament, and his service as lord mayor of London on the eve of the American Revolution. Told here with the force and immediacy of a firsthand newspaper account, Wilkes’s own remarkable story is inseparable from the larger story of modern civil liberties and how they came to fruition. “[Does] justice to Wilkes both as a fiery proponent of individual rights and as . . . a libertine par excellence in an age with no shortage of memorable rakes.” —The New York Times “It is difficult to believe that John Wilkes, a notorious womanizer and scandal-monger, was a genuine hero of civil liberties and political democracy on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 18th century, but hero he was and in this engaging book Arthur Cash gives Wilkes the serious treatment he has long deserved.” —Eric Foner, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History and New York Times–bestselling author of Reconstruction
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 902
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