Author: Thomas HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Memoirs of the life and travels of Thomas Hammond
Author: Thomas HammondMemoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond
Author: Thomas HammondMemoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748-1775
Author: Thomas HammondPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813939682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated manuscript from the eighteenth century now being published for the first time, Thomas Hammond's memoirs are a major discovery. Hammond was a self-educated but remarkably gifted writer with a knack for seizing unlikely opportunities for adventure. We follow this abandoned waif as he embarks on a long journey through bewildering foreign lands—working by turns as a stableboy, jockey, servant to French nobles, itinerant circus rider, and entertainment entrepreneur—only to recover his home and father at the end of his travels. Personal narratives by the eighteenth century’s non-elites are exceedingly rare, and Hammond’s memoir provides a wonderfully vivid depiction of the texture of everyday life in that era. Possessed of a dry wit, Hammond can be hilarious, offering uproarious descriptions of stableboy pranks or the highly unsanitary conditions of a Portuguese inn; but he can also be compellingly frank about his emotions, revealing how deprived of love he felt as a young boy, describing climbing into an oven for warmth after having lost his mother to smallpox, or earnestly recounting how he fell in love with his master's (supposed) wife. This edition includes numerous illustrations from the original manuscript—Hammond’s own hand-drawn travel maps and depictions of bullfighting as well as various images of the equestrian life collected by Hammond, many in brilliant color.
Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination
Author: Srividhya SwaminathanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317112997
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World, the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the power of association.
Daniel Defoe in Context
Author: Albert J. RiveroPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108871925
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 723
Book Description
Innovative in its structure and approach, Daniel Defoe in Context contains 42 essays by leading scholars illuminating the life, times, and world of Daniel Defoe. Defoe is one of the most important literary figures in English history, thanks not only to his pioneering novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, but also to his notable works in journalism, travel writing, conduct literature, and verse, both satiric and serious. Written with general readers and students in mind, the essays in this volume provide up-to-date knowledge about eighteenth-century literature, culture, and history in a high quality, clearly written, but completely accessible form. Together they demonstrate the ways not only in which Defoe's world shaped his writing, but also in which Defoe's writings profoundly affected his world, and therefore our world.
Henry Fielding at Work
Author: L. BertelsenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0312299648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
As a writer, businessman and magistrate, Henry Fielding was in a singular position to textualize eighteenth-century English cultural conditions and materially to author the text of his society. Not only did he extol employment, he co-owned an employment agency. Not only did he commit fictional criminals to paper, he committed actual criminals to prison. And he could and did commit actual criminals to prison and paper simultaneously. Henry Fielding at Work examines the intersections of Fielding's practice as magistrate, businessman, and writer, and explores the ways Fielding's experience in those capacities affected the conception, form and articulation of his final literary works.
Memoir of Captain M.M. Hammond
Author: M.M. HammondPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375122047
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of the Four Monthly Meetings of Friends of Philadelphia
Author: Monthly Meeting of Friends of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of the Four Monthly Meetings of Friends of Philadelphia
Author: Friends' Library (Philadelphia, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Author: Paul F. Hammond