Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of ChesterfieldPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Letters written by ... Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son ... together with several other pieces on various subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope ... The sixth edition
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of ChesterfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Letters Written by the Late Right Honorable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son Philip Stanhope... with Several Other Pieces on Various Subjets... Published by M. Eugenia Stanhope
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope ChesterfieldPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Letters written by ... Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son ... together with several other pieces on various subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope ... The sixth edition
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of ChesterfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son ... Together with several other pieces on various subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, etc
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of ChesterfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Engaging Violence
Author: David SimpsonPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503633098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of inciting it. This book sets out to describe the ways in which these words—violence, literature and civility—and the concepts they evoke are mutually entangled, and the uses to which these entanglements have been put. Simpson's argument follows a broadly historical trajectory through the long modern period from the Renaissance to the present, drawing on the work of historians, political scientists, literary scholars and philosophers. The result is a distinctly new argument about the complex and often mystified entanglements between literature, civility and violence in the anglophone Atlantic sphere. What now are our expectations of civility and literature, separately and together? How do these long-familiar but residually imprecise concepts stand up to the demands of the modern world? Simpson's argument is that, despite and perhaps because of their imperfect conceptualization, both persist as important protocols for the critique of violence.
A Selection of Choice and Valuable Old Books ... Offered for Sale with Prices Affixed, Selected from the Stock of Pickering & Chatto, Ltd. ...
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Pickering & ChattoEarly Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 2
Author: Lars E. TroidePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773585109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The years 1774-77 saw Fanny Burney's increasing occupation with Evelina, which she finally completed and presented to the publisher Thomas Lowndes. Like her novel, the journals and letters of this period reveal her artistic powers, as she continues to sketch characters with economy and precision and create convincing narratives out of the events of her life. Among the more memorable figures she meets at her father's London house are the "noble savage" Omai, the first Tahitian brought back to England; the famed explorer James "Abyssinian" Bruce, who returned from Africa with tales of natives who ate raw flesh; and Prince Aleksei Orlov of Russia, who had Czar Peter III murdered in order to permit Peter's wife, Catherine "the Great," to ascend the throne. Other notable figures include Dr Samuel Johnson and the great singer Lucrezia Agujari, admired by Mozart. Also in these pages, the usually diffident Miss Burney takes charge of her destiny by rebuffing her suitor Thomas Barlow, who has wealth, education, good looks, and the vehement approval of most of her family, but whom she finds a total bore. The journals and letters of Fanny Burney are an invaluable source for anyone interested in the social and literary history of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. Lars Troide has supported the texts with thorough and detailed annotations.