Author: Henry Lee HigginsonPublisher: Boston : The Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN:
Category : Bankers
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson
Author: Henry Lee HigginsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson
Author: Henry Lee HigginsonPublisher: Boston : The Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN:
Category : Bankers
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Highbrow/Lowbrow
Author: Lawrence W. LEVINEPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674040139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural boundaries have been and how fragile and recent the cultural categories we have learned to accept as natural and eternal are. For most of the nineteenth century, a wide variety of expressive forms—Shakespearean drama, opera, orchestral music, painting and sculpture, as well as the writings of such authors as Dickens and Longfellow—enjoyed both high cultural status and mass popularity. In the nineteenth century Americans (in addition to whatever specific ethnic, class, and regional cultures they were part of) shared a public culture less hierarchically organized, less fragmented into relatively rigid adjectival groupings than their descendants were to experience. By the twentieth century this cultural eclecticism and openness became increasingly rare. Cultural space was more sharply defined and less flexible than it had been. The theater, once a microcosm of America—housing both the entire spectrum of the population and the complete range of entertainment from tragedy to farce, juggling to ballet, opera to minstrelsy—now fragmented into discrete spaces catering to distinct audiences and separate genres of expressive culture. The same transition occurred in concert halls, opera houses, and museums. A growing chasm between “serious” and “popular,” between “high” and “low” culture came to dominate America’s expressive arts. “If there is a tragedy in this development,” Lawrence Levine comments, “it is not only that millions of Americans were now separated from exposure to such creators as Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Verdi, whom they had enjoyed in various formats for much of the nineteenth century, but also that the rigid cultural categories, once they were in place, made it so difficult for so long for so many to understand the value and importance of the popular art forms that were all around them. Too many of those who considered themselves educated and cultured lost for a significant period—and many have still not regained—their ability to discriminate independently, to sort things out for themselves and understand that simply because a form of expressive culture was widely accessible and highly popular it was not therefore necessarily devoid of any redeeming value or artistic merit.” In this innovative historical exploration, Levine not only traces the emergence of such familiar categories as highbrow and lowbrow at the turn of the century, but helps us to understand more clearly both the process of cultural change and the nature of culture in American society.
Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson
Author: Henry Lee HigginsonLife and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson (Classic Reprint)
Author: Bliss PerryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332789153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Excerpt from Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson The material for a life of Henry Lee Higginson is abundant. He had a fondness for keeping letters and memoranda, and the correspondence to which I have had access is enormous in quantity, and covers a period of more than seventy years. During both of his long sojourns in Europe, in his youth, he kept diaries, as he did fora while during the Civil War; and later in life he dictated some vivid Reminiscences. He was passion ately devoted to his friends, and wrote them with the great est frankness; and among his correspondents who were equally frank were some of the most interesting men of his generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Life and Letters of Henry of Henry Lee Higginson
Author: Bliss PerryPublisher:
ISBN: 1444680129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson
Author: Bliss PerryPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781494182021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
Robert Bacon — Life And Letters [Illustrated Edition]
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Author: James Brown ScottPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782891714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Numerous portraits, prints and photographs throughout. Robert Bacon stands as one of the pivotal figures in the United States around the turn of the Twentieth Century. A native of Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard before becoming a senior figure at J.P. Morgan & Co, instrumental in brokering the deals that formed the U.S. Steel Corporation and the Northern Securities Company. Following a brief period of inactivity, he was named Assistant Secretary of State in 1905, a position he held until 1909. He was even acting Secretary of State in the absence of Elihu Root (who wrote the introduction to this book). After this, he was posted to the vital role of Ambassador to France in Paris as the storm clouds of the First World War started to appear, and, following a brief spell back in America, returned to work with the American Ambulance Service in France in 1914. Once America had committed to military involvement in the First World War, Bacon held various senior positions on General Pershing’s staff. His post as Chief of the American Military Mission at British General Headquarters brought him into contact with Field Marshal Haig (who wrote a foreword to this book) and many of the other British generals.
Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson
Author: Henry L. HigginsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780781281829
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
The Letters of Henry Adams
Author: Henry AdamsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674526860
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description