![Edward the Seventh. A Play [in Seven Acts and in Verse] on the Past and Present Times, with a View to the Future. Illustrated by Double-page and Whole-page Cartoons of Suggestive Scenes, and a Treble-page Frontispiece, Presenting the Portraits of the Authors of “The Coming K-” [i.e. of the Royal Family]. (By the Authors of the Coming K-, Etc. [i.e. by Samuel O. Beeton, Aglen A. Dowty and Evelyn D. Jerrold.]). PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/vSJoUiabAWIC?fife=w150-h200)
Author: Edward VII (King of Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Edward the Seventh. A Play [in Seven Acts and in Verse] on the Past and Present Times, with a View to the Future. Illustrated by Double-page and Whole-page Cartoons of Suggestive Scenes, and a Treble-page Frontispiece, Presenting the Portraits of the Authors of “The Coming K-” [i.e. of the Royal Family]. (By the Authors of the Coming K-, Etc. [i.e. by Samuel O. Beeton, Aglen A. Dowty and Evelyn D. Jerrold.]).
![Edward the Seventh. A Play [in Seven Acts and in Verse] on the Past and Present Times, with a View to the Future. Illustrated by Double-page and Whole-page Cartoons of Suggestive Scenes, and a Treble-page Frontispiece, Presenting the Portraits of the Authors of “The Coming K-” [i.e. of the Royal Family]. (By the Authors of the Coming K-, Etc. [i.e. by Samuel O. Beeton, Aglen A. Dowty and Evelyn D. Jerrold.]). PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/vSJoUiabAWIC?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Edward VII (King of Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Frankenstein
Author: ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789356845138
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Frankenstein is a novel by Mary Shelley. It was first published in 1818. Ever since its publication, the story of Frankenstein has remained brightly in the imagination of the readers and literary circles across the countries. In the novel, an English explorer in the Arctic, who assists Victor Frankenstein on the final leg of his chase, tells the story. As a talented young medical student, Frankenstein strikes upon the secret of endowing life to the dead. He becomes obsessed with the idea that he might make a man. The Outcome is a miserable and an outcast who seeks murderous revenge for his condition. Frankenstein pursues him when the creature flees. It is at this juncture t that Frankenstein meets the explorer and recounts his story, dying soon after. Although it has been adapted into films numerous times, they failed to effectively convey the stark horror and philosophical vision of the novel. Shelley's novel is a combination of Gothic horror story and science fiction.
The Illustrators
Author: Chris Beetles LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9781905738663
Category : Drawing, British
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Joyce in Art
Author: Christa-Maria Lerm-HayesPublisher: Lilliput PressLtd
ISBN: 9781843510529
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The first historical account of visual art inspired by James Joyce. At once a comprehensive and selective study, it focuses on the most original, provocative and best-informed artists who took an interest in Joyce. With over 200 reproductions in colo
Paper Bullets
Author: Harold M. WeberPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081315667X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
Author: Joseph StruttDuncan Phyfe
Author: Peter M. KennyPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394425
Category : Cabinetmakers
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed elite, Phyfe would come to count among his clients some of the nation's wealthiest and most storied families. This richly illustrated volume covers the full chronological sweep of the craftsman's distinguished career, from his earliest furniture-- which bears the influence of his 18th-century British predecessors Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Hope--to his late simplified designs in the Grecian Plain. More than sixty works by Phyfe and his workshop are highlighted, including rarely seen pieces from private collections and several newly discovered documented works. Additionally, essays by leading scholars bring to light new information on Phyfe's life, his workshop production, and his roster of illustrious patrons. What unfolds is the story of Phyfe's remarkable transformation from a young immigrant craftsman to an accomplished master cabinetmaker and an American icon."--Publisher's website.
Western Music and Its Others
Author: Georgina BornPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520220846
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
"[Western Music and Its Others] will be taken as an important book signalling a new turn within the field. It takes the best features of traditional, rigorous scholarship and brings these to bear upon contemporary, more speculative questions. The level of theoretical sophistication is high. The studies within it are polemical and timely and of lasting scholarly value."—Will Straw, co-editor of Theory Rules: Art as Theory/ Theory and Art "The great value of this collection lies in the wealth of questions that it raises--questions that together crystallize the recent concerns of musicology with force and clarity. But it also lies in the authors' resistance to the easy 'postmodernist' answers that threaten to turn new musicology prematurely grey. The editors' comprehensive, intellectually adventurous introduction exemplifies the sort of eager yet properly skeptical receptivity to scholarly innovation that fosters lasting disciplinary reform. It alone is worth the price of the book." —Richard Taruskin, author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through " Mavra" "When cultural-studies methods first appeared in musicology 15 years ago, they triggered a storm of polemics that sometimes overshadowed the important issues being raised. As the canon wars recede, however, scholars are finding it possible to focus on the concerns that led them to cultural criticism in the first place: the study of music and its political meanings. Western Music and Its Others brings together leading musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and specialists in film and popular music to explore the ways European and North American musicians have drawn on or identified themselves in tension with the musical practices of Others. In a series of essays ranging from examination of the Orientalist tropes of early 20th-century Modernists to the tangled claims for ownership in today's World Music, the authors in this collection greatly advance both our knowledge of specific case studies and our intellectual awareness of the complexity and urgency of these problems. A timely intervention that should help push music studies to the next level." —Susan McClary, author of Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (2000) "This collection provides a sophisticated model for using theory to interrogate music and music to interrogate theory. The essays both take up and challenge the dominance of notions of representation in cultural theory as they explore the relevance of the concepts of hybridity and otherness for contemporary art music. Sophisticated theory, erudite scholarship and a very real appreciation for the specificities of music make this a powerful and important addition to our understanding of both culture and music." —Lawrence Grossberg, author of Dancing in Spite of Myself
Four Years Under Marse Robert
Author: Robert StilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The British Museum’s Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855
Author: Geoffrey TurnerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004435379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Geoffrey Turner's definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations by the British Museum at the Assyrian site of Nineveh documents the complete history of these excavations and provides detailed reconstructions of the architecture and sculpture in the palace of Sennacherib.