Author: Frank Clyde BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Elkanah Settle
Author: Frank Clyde BrownElkanah Settle
Author: F.C. BrownPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879011763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Lady Rachel Russell
Author: Lois G. SchwoererPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421432242
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Originally published in 1987. Lady Rachel Russell (1637–1723) was regarded as "one of the best women" by many of the most powerful people of her time. Wife of Lord William Russell, the prominent Whig opponent of King Charles II who was executed for treason in 1683, Lady Russell emerged as a political figure in her own right during the Glorious Revolution and throughout her forty-year widowhood. Award-winning historian Lois G. Schwoerer has written a biography that illuminates both the political life and the lives of women in late Stuart England. Lady Russell's interest in politics and religion blossomed during her marriage to Lord Russell and after his death: "as William became a Whig martyr, Rachel became a Whig saint." Her wealth, contacts, and role as her husband's surrogate gave her considerable influence to intercede in high government appointments, lend support in elections, and exchange favors with her friend Mary of Orange. In her domestic life she similarly took steps usually reserved to men, managing large estates in London and Hampshire and negotiating favorable marriage contracts for each of her three children. Although Lady Russell was unusual for her time, she was by no means unique. Other notable women shared her concerns and traits, although to differing degrees and effects. Schwoerer suggests that the horizons of women's lives in the seventeenth century may have extended farther than is often supposed.
Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England
Author: Melinda S. ZookPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271039868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn
Author: Inns of Court (London). - Lincoln's InnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Enforcing and Eluding Censorship
Author: Giovanni IamartinoPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443869139
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Enforcing and Eluding Censorship: British and Anglo-Italian Perspectives brings together a wide range of current work on literary, cultural and linguistic censorship by a team of fifteen contributors working in Italy, Britain and continental Europe. Censorship can take hold of a written text before or after its public appearance; it can strike the cultural item, as well as the very individual/s who created it; it can also catch in its net the agents responsible for its publication and diffusion (in the case of a printed text, authors, editors, printers, publishers, librarians and booksellers). It can be directed against a single person or against a group, an organization, a political party, or a religious confession. The different “ways of censorship” – how it was enforced or eluded in the Italian or Anglo-American worlds, and often in their mutual relations – are the topic of this volume, whose contents are divided into two main sections. The first, entitled “Discourse Regulation”, discusses instances of institutionalized and regulatory censorship and, conversely, forms of reaction against pressure and control. The second section, entitled “Textual and Ideological Manipulations”, debates some of the ways in which cultural products can be used to exert censorial influence upon society; among these, it shows how language and descriptions of language may provide a biased view of reality. All in all, the chapters in this volume highlight a notion of censorship that defies strict boundaries and definitions, thus challenging received ideas on cultural practices.
John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes
Author: Paula de PandoPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004379347
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes, Paula de Pando offers the first monograph on Restoration playwright John Banks. De Pando analyses Banks’s civic model of she-tragedy in terms of its successful adaptation of early modern literary traditions and its engagement with contemporary political and cultural debates. Using Tudor queens as tragic heroes and specifically addressing female audiences, patrons and critics, Banks made women rather than men the subject of tragedy, revolutionising drama and influencing depictions of gender, politics, and history in the long eighteenth century.
Stanford University Publications
Author: Bulletin
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)