Author: Oliver Gray SteelePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Letters from Europe Written During the Summer of 1858
Author: Oliver Gray SteelePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Letters from Europe Written During the Summer of 1858
Author: Oliver Gray SteelePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai
Author: David Francis UrrowsPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527575136
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book reveals the story of François Ravary, Jesuit missionary, musician, and organ builder. The mastermind behind the construction of the bamboo organs of nineteenth-century Shanghai, Ravary’s unpublished letters from China present a vivid picture of the excitement and crises surrounding the Roman Catholic mission in the often-violent integration of global space of this time. Focusing on an individual life, this study adds needed perspective to histories of the treaty-port era. By shifting the inquiry towards a nuanced, empirical, and refocused evaluation of the landscape, Ravary is revealed as a humanist in the Christian tradition, curious about Chinese society and culture, as well as the force behind China’s first brass band, first school orchestra, and other landmarks of Sino-European musical convergence. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century China studies, cultural histories, and the diffusion of Western art practices.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The American Cyclopaedia
Author: George RipleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The American Cyclopædia
Author: George RipleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977575
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849640949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Like all of Hawthorne's novels, "The Scarlet Letter" has but a slender plot and but few characters with an influence on the development of the story. Its great dramatic force depends entirely on the mental states of the actors and their relations to one another, —relations of conscience, — relations between wronged and wrongers. Its great burden is the weight of unacknowledged sin as seen in the remorse and cowardice and suffering of the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale. Contrasted with his concealed agony is the constant confession, conveyed by the letter, which is forced upon Hester, and has a double effect, — a healthful one, working beneficently, and making her helpful and benevolent, tolerant and thoughtful ; and an unhealthful one, which by the great emphasis placed on her transgression, the keeping her forever under its ban and isolating her from her fellows, prepares her to break away from the long repression and lapse again into sin when she plans her flight. Roger Chillingworth is an embodiment of subtle and refined revenge. The most striking situation is perhaps "The Minister's Vigil," in chapter xii. The book, though corresponding in its tone and burden to some of the shorter stories, had a more startling and dramatic character, and a strangeness, which at once took hold of a larger public than any of those had attracted. Though imperfectly comprehended, and even misunderstood in some quarters, it was seen to have a new and unique quality; and Hawthorne's reputation became national.
Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004511644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
This book sheds new light on the key role played by the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in the collection of folklore an d the creation of national culture in Northern Europe.
Passionate Pilgrims
Author: Allison LockwoodPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838622728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.