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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
The British Critic
Author: The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
Author: The British Critic
Author: James Shergold BoonePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368511270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1810.
British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record
Author: The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
Author: John Henry NewmanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368511866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1812.
British Critic
Author: A catalogue of Hookham's circulating library
Author: Hookham's libraryScotland's Pariah
Author: Patrick O'FlahertyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442619880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was admired by literary masters such as Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, and William Godwin, Pinkerton’s life was full of personal and professional misadventures. Patrick O’Flaherty’s biography presents an engrossing account of Pinkerton’s life and works from his early years in Scotland to his Parisian exile, covering his major editorial, antiquarian, and geographic works. Examining Pinkerton’s involvement in the London literary scene, his conflicted relationship with the rise of Celtic nationalism, and his response to early literary romanticism, Scotland’s Pariah is a shrewd and compassionate evaluation of an astonishing literary life.
Cholera 1832
Author: R. J. MorrisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000566595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Originally published in 1976, this is the account of British society’s response to the threat of disease. It is the story of an administrative fight to exclude the disease by quarantine and to persuade commerce and working-class people to observe carefully thought-out regulations. The story of one of failure – of men hampered by lack of information, lack of resources and lack of a convincing scientific explanation. Medical science failed to see that infected water supplies were the major carriers of the epidemic and failed to acknowledge saline infusion (the basis of successful modern treatment) when it was presented to them by an obscure local surgeon in Leith. The social structure of the medical profession was as much a barrier to scientific advance as the technical limitations of statistical method and microscope. These reactions are explained in terms of the expectations and the understanding of those involved as well as in terms of modern medical knowledge and sociological theory.
British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824
Author: T. WeinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403913684
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and author relations. The scope of this study extends beyond the confines of the novel proper to include chapbooks and illustrated redactions.