Author: T. J.Publisher:
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Category : Character sketches
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Pictures of Passions, Fancies, & Affections
Author: T. J.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Character sketches
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Pictures of Passions, Fancies, & Affections
Author: The Enthusiast
Author: William Cook MillerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501770829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Enthusiast tells the story of a character type that was developed in early modern Britain to discredit radical prophets during an era that witnessed the dismantling of the Church of England's traditional means for punishing heresy. As William Cook Miller shows, the caricature of fanaticism, here called the Enthusiast began as propaganda against religious dissenters, especially working-class upstarts, but was adopted by a range of writers as a literary vehicle for exploring profound problems of spirit, soul, and body and as a persona for the ironic expression of their own prophetic illuminations. Taking shape through the public and private writings of some of the most insightful authors of seventeenth-century Britain—Henry More, John Locke, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Mary Astell, and Jonathan Swift, among others—the Enthusiast appeared in various guises and literary modes. By attending to this literary being and its animators, The Enthusiast establishes the figure of the fanatic as a bridge between the Reformation and the Enlightenment, showing how an incipient secular modernity was informed by not the rejection of religion but the transformation of the prophet into something sparkling, witty, ironic, and new.
Restituta
Author: Sir Egerton BrydgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Weeping Britannia
Author: Thomas DixonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191663565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of our past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and theories about them, from the medieval mystic Margery Kempe in the early fifteenth century, to Paul Gascoigne's famous tears in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup. In between, the book includes the tears of some of the most influential figures in British history, from Oliver Cromwell to Margaret Thatcher (not forgetting George III, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, and Winston Churchill along the way). But the history of weeping in Britain is not simply one of famous tear-stained individuals. These tearful micro-histories all contribute to a bigger picture of changing emotional ideas and styles over the centuries, touching on many other fascinating areas of our history. For instance, the book also investigates the histories of painting, literature, theatre, music and the cinema to discover how and why people have been moved to tears by the arts, from the sentimental paintings and novels of the eighteenth century and the romantic music of the nineteenth, to Hollywood weepies, expressionist art, and pop music in the twentieth century. Weeping Britannia is simultaneously a museum of tears and a philosophical handbook, using history to shed new light on the changing nature of Britishness over time, as well as the ever-shifting ways in which we express and understand our emotional lives. The story that emerges is one in which a previously rich religious and cultural history of producing and interpreting tears was almost completely erased by the rise of a stoical and repressed British empire in the late nineteenth century. Those forgotten philosophies of tears and feeling can now be rediscovered. In the process, readers might perhaps come to view their own tears in a different light, as something more than mere emotional incontinence.
Dickens-La Peyrere
Author: Luther Samuel LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Nelson's Encyclopaedia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Restituta
Author: Samuel Egerton BrydgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
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Author: Luther Samuel LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Dickens-La Peyrere
Author: Luther S. LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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