Author: John CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Parson and the Palace: a Reply to the Letter of the Rev. J. Cumming ... to Sir Joseph Paxton, on the Opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays. By a Medical Man
Author: John CummingPalace of the People
Author: Jan PiggottPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299200947
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace originally graced London's Hyde Park with Joseph Paxton's remarkable geometric design and groundbreaking use of glass elements, prefiguring the modern movement in architecture. After the exhibition a group of bankers, railway directors, and men of influence moved the structure to a new site in south London, rebuilt it to an even grander scale, and set about its promotion as a "palace for the multitude." Here were exhibitions, concerts, and spectaculars to fill a splendid day out for Londoners of all classes and interests. Filled with plaster casts of great art treasures, life-sized models of dinosaurs, waterworks, and gardens, the Crystal Palace became a center of both education and entertainment from the Victorian era through its destruction by fire in1936. Copublished with C. Hurst & Co., London Wisconsin edition for sale only in North and South America, U.S. territories and dependencies, and the Philippines.
The Life & Letters of Sir George Grove
Author: Charles Larcom GravesPublisher: London, Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Life & Letters of Sir George Grove, Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), Hon. LL.D. (Glasgow), Formerly Director of the Royal College of Music; by Charles L. Graves
Author: Charles Larcom GravesPublisher:
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Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Show Me the Bone
Author: Gowan DawsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022633287X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth must be accompanied by a certain kind of jawbone, neck, stomach, limbs, and feet. Show Me the Bone tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim, tracing its fortunes from Europe to America and showing how it persisted in popular science and literature and shaped the practices of paleontologists long after the method on which it was based had been refuted. In so doing, Gowan Dawson reveals how decisively the practices of the scientific elite were—and still are—shaped by their interactions with the general public.
The Crystal Palace Penny Guide
Author: Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Collected Memoirs, Letters and Literary Essays of Wilkie Collins: Non-Fiction Works from the English novelist, known for his mystery novels The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Moonstone (Featuring A Biography)
Author: Wilkie CollinsPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026837673
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. Table of Contents: Biographies: Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) Wilkie Collins' Charms (Biography by Olive Logan) Letters and Literary Writings: A Clause for the New Reform Bill A Column to Burns A Dramatic Author A Fair Penitent A Pictorial Tour to St George Bosherville A Shy Scheme Address from the Queen to Certain of Her Subjects in Office Awful Warning to Bachelors Books Necessary for a Liberal Education Burns Viewed As a Hat-Peg Considerations on The Copyright Question Deep Design on Society Doctor Dulcamara, MP Dramatic Grub Street How I Write My Books Magnetic Evenings at Home Pity a Poor Prince Rambles Beyond Railways Reminiscences of a Storyteller Sermon for Sepoys Thanks to Doctor Livingstone The Cruise of the Tomtit The Debtor's Best Friend The Exhibition of the Royal Academy The Little Huguenot The National Gallery and the Old Masters
Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader
Author: Celia PearcePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312115874
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world's fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world's fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world's fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world's fair itself.
An Account of the Library of Art at Marlborough House, with a Catalogue of the Principal Works
Author: WornumThe Clairmont Family Letters, 1839 - 1889
Author: Sharon JoffePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134847580
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book is the first of two volumes in an edited collection that brings together the unpublished letters of the extended Clairmont family, for the first time. The letters, housed in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library, inform our understanding of the Shelley-Godwin circle through the experiences and thoughts of their descendants. The correspondence also enables us to see into the contemporary social history of nineteenth-century families living in Europe and Australia, dealing with subjects such as the conflicts in Europe, woes in the European financial markets, and the effects of Australian pioneer life on immigrants to that country. The Clairmont Family Letters, 1839–1889 improves upon scholarship made by other Shelley and Clairmont collections and is furnished with editorial notes and apparatus from Dr. Sharon Joffe. These volumes will be of significant interest to scholars in British Romanticism.