Author: David IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Lives of Scottish Poets
Author: David IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of David Constable
Author: Catalogue of the Library of Congress, in December, 1830; a supplement of additions in December, 1831; and an index to the names of authors and annotators, etc
Author: Library of CongressTransactions and Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom
Author: Library AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum
Author: Rhiannon PurdiePublisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyndsay's Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, as well as his Answer to the Kingis Flyting; and three anonymous fifteenth-century poems: Balletis of the Nine Nobles, Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland, and Talis of the Fyve Bestes.
Studies in Philology
Author: The History of Scottish Poetry ... Edited by J. A. Carlyle. With a Memoir [by D. Laing] and Glossary
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Author: David IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
The Lady's Monthly Museum
Author: Uncivil Mirth
Author: Ross CarrollPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691241775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justice The relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This new vogue for ridicule unleashed moral panic and prompted warnings that it would corrupt public debate. But ridicule also had vocal defenders who saw it as a means to expose hypocrisy, unsettle the arrogant, and deflate the powerful. Uncivil Mirth examines how leading thinkers of the period searched for a humane form of ridicule, one that served the causes of religious toleration, the abolition of the slave trade, and the dismantling of patriarchal power. Ross Carroll brings to life a tumultuous age in which the place of ridicule in public life was subjected to unparalleled scrutiny. He shows how the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, far from accepting ridicule as an unfortunate byproduct of free public debate, refashioned it into a check on pretension and authority. Drawing on philosophical treatises, political pamphlets, and conduct manuals of the time, Carroll examines how David Hume, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others who came after Shaftesbury debated the value of ridicule in the fight against intolerance, fanaticism, and hubris. Casting Enlightenment Britain in an entirely new light, Uncivil Mirth demonstrates how the Age of Reason was also an Age of Ridicule, and speaks to our current anxieties about the lack of civility in public debate.
Author: David Irving