Author: William ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The House Book ; Or, Family Chronicle of Useful Knowledge, and Cottage Physician
Author: William ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Essays on German Literature and Culture, Part II
Author: Chris Ramon Vanden BosschePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520410300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
"In the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of expertise in German language and literature that prompted editors to seek him out as a reviewer and launched his career as an essayist. Carlyle has long been credited with establishing the importance of new German writing in Britain at the time, and Essays on German Literature brings together his complete writings on the topic. This volume will be published in two parts. In the essays in part 1, Carlyle ranges broadly over German literature, much of it new to English-speaking audiences, and comments on three writers-Goethe, Richter, and Novalis-who profoundly influenced him. The essays in part 2 include historical overviews of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a series of commentaries marking the passing of Goethe. In keeping with the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions, and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the editorial decisions made in reconciling the editions of each essay"--
The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain
Author: Ian MortimerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643138820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic licence of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history: the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic, and political change. And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions—where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion. Once more, Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank, and wore; where they shopped and how they amused themselves; what they believed in, and what they were afraid of. Conveying the sights, sound,s and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral—the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience.
Medicine for Heroes
Author: Mississauga South Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain, 1800-1914
Author: Dena AttarPublisher: Prospect Books (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Catalogue of Books
Author: Miles, James, bookseller, Leeds, EngPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The Gardeners' Chronicle
Author: Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette
Author: A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Author: Wellcome Historical Medical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description