Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Languages : en
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7 Letters from Sir Walter Scott to Matthew Weld Hartstonge
Author: Walter ScottFamiliar Letters of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott8 letters from Sir Walter Scott to M. W. Hartstonge
Author: Walter ScottTime's Witness
Author: Rosemary HillPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141947411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment, concerned with kings and statesmen, gave way to a new interest in the lives of ordinary people. Oral history, costume history, the history of food and furniture, of Gothic architecture, theatre and much else were explored as never before. Antiquarianism, the study of the material remains of the past, was not new, but now hundreds of men - and some women - became antiquaries and set about rediscovering their national history, in Britain, France and Germany. The Romantic age valued facts, but it also valued imagination and it brought both to the study of history. Among its achievements were the preservation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the analysis and dating of Gothic architecture, and the first publication of Beowulf. It dispelled old myths, and gave us new ones: Shakespeare's birthplace, clan tartans and the arrow in Harold's eye are among their legacies. From scholars to imposters the dozen or so antiquaries at the heart of this book show us history in the making.
Remodeling the Nation
Author: Duncan FahertyPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584657729
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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In this interdisciplinary study, Faherty argues that throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Americans conceptualized their still unsettled political and social states through metaphors of home building. During this period, a pervasive concern with the design and furnishing of houses helped writers to manage previous encounters with settlements, both native and European, and to imagine and remodel a new national ideal. By aligning the period’s architectural concerns (registered in both the interior and exterior of houses) with concurrent debates about the need to create a national identity in the wake of the American Revolution, Faherty registers how representations of the house were a crucial locus for debating broadly shared concerns about the anxieties of nation building. Topics include Abraham Lincoln’s use of architectural motifs in his 1858 senatorial campaign (the “house divided against itself ” speech); the arguments about domestic identity embodied in the designs of Mount Vernon and Monticello; the lingering import of colonial and indigenous settlements on post-revolutionary culture as registered in the work of William Bartram and Lewis and Clark; Charles Brockden Brown’s representations of the multivalent legacies of Pennsylvania’s architectural landscapes; Washington Irving’s attempts to preserve and remodel national architectural and literary practices by underscoring the manufactured nature of European cultural production; the shifting importance of the house and American attitudes toward nature in the work of three generations of the Cooper family; and the gendering of domestic space in the work of Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Richly informed by contemporary work in literary studies, history, art history, and cultural criticism, Remodeling the Nation ranges incisively across the work of political theorists, social critics, novelists, poets, natural historians, landscape artists, travel writers, and authors of architectural and domestic treatises.
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott: 1831-1832, and appendices of early letters
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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The Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Robert Maturim
Author: Fannie E. RatchfordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429656297
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Originally published in 1937, The Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Robert Maturin contains twenty-two letters presenting a penetrating and vivid self-portrait of Sir Walter Scott. Scott's patronage of Maturin, this impecunious Irish author, giving him wise advice, lending encouragement in his work and at times badly needed financial assistance, extended over a period of twelve years to the time of Maturin's death, and his kind subsequent letters, written to Maturin's family, in the midst of his own great financial troubles, bring to a fitting close this single unit in Scott's rich social life. Since the two men never met, the whole relationship was built up through thier literary work and their letters to each other, displayed in this volume.
Letter from Sir Walter Scott to M.W. Hartstonge
Author: Walter ScottCatalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925: Manuscripts 1801-4000, charters and other formal documents 901-2634
Author: National Library of ScotlandPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Author: Walter Scott