Author: Sir Max BeerbohmPublisher: London, Lane
ISBN: 9780608344027
Category : Essays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Works of Max Beerbohm, with a Bibliography by John Lane
Author: Sir Max BeerbohmPublisher: London, Lane
ISBN: 9780608344027
Category : Essays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Author: Max BeerbohmPublisher:
ISBN: 9781546998600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This is a collection of seven of Max Beerbohm's essays ranging in topic from male fashion to King George the Fourth to the use of cosmetics. The topic of any particular essay is almost beside the point, each offering the author an opportunity to wax eloquent and display his wit. Commenting on the dandyism of some public figures, Beerbohm wrote, "Outside his art, Mr. Brummell had a personality of almost Balzacian insignificance."
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Author: Max BeerbohmPublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Works of Max Beerbohm is a collection of satirical essays by Max Beerbohm. It was published in 1896 at The Bodley Head, his publisher John Lane contributing a detailed bibliography of the works of the author, then aged 24. Before their publication as a book, the essays had appeared in prominent literary periodicals such as The Yellow Book and The Savoy. Most of the essays were written while he was a student at Oxford, although he had left Merton College in 1894. By then he was already known as a caricaturist, parodist and essayist and well acquainted with the writers and artists connected with The Bodley Head, notably Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. The essays can perhaps be best described as both elaborate parody and vicious satire. Beerbohm’s intimate knowledge of the social circles of the time and his penchant for pointed descriptions of character are always on display, dismantling the purported greatness that surrounds him. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Author: Sir Max BeerbohmPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Max Beerbohm Caricatures
Author: N. John HallPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300072174
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Max Beerbohm, the foremost caricaturist of his day, was hailed by The Times in 1913 as the greatest of English comic artists, by Bernard Berenson as the English Goya, and by Edmund Wilson as the greatest...portrayer of personalities - in the history of art.
The Works of Max Beerbohm a bibliography
Author: John LaneBritish Playwrights, 1880-1956
Author: William W. DemastesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313032653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of whom are also known for their work as novelists and poets. Included are figures such as W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. Each entry provides a biographical overview; a list of major plays and summaries of their critical reception; a list of minor plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career; and archival and bibliographical information. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956. Entries are written by expert contributors, with each entry providing a biographical overview; a list of major plays, premieres, and significant revivals, along with a summary of the critical reception of these works; a listing of additional plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career and contributions, with reference to published evaluations in magazines, journals, dissertations, and books; a listing of locations housing unpublished archival material, if available; a selected bibliography of the dramatist's published plays and of essays and articles by the playwright on aspects of the theater; a selected bibliography of secondary sources; and, when available, a listing of previously published bibliographies on the playwright.
The Revelation of St. Love, the Divine
Author: Francis Burdett Thomas Coutts-Nevill Baron LatymerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Louise Jopling
Author: Patriciade MontfortPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351559664
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Louise Jopling: A Biographical and Cultural Study is the first in-depth study of this nineteenth-century painter who was among the first women admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (in 1902). In part an engaging biography of a compelling celebrity figure and social campaigner in Victorian England, Patricia de Montfort?s book interweaves a vivid and rounded portrait of this Manchester-born artist, teacher, and author with insightful analysis of Jopling?s artwork and the aristocratic-bohemian social milieu that she inhabited. Painted by Whistler and Millais, Jopling herself portrayed Victorian-era celebrities like the actress Lillie Langtry and her patrons included members of the de Rothschild banking family. Her work also included figure compositions, interiors, landscape and genre scenes. Drawing upon Jopling's unpublished diaries, notebooks and correspondence as well as her 1925 memoir Twenty Years of My Life, de Montfort?s study opens the way for a twenty-first century rediscovery of this now little-known artist, who combined professional artistic practice with social activism, against the backdrop of an often troubled private life. The full scope of Jopling?s artistic endeavours are discussed in relation to the cultural framework for fin de si?e working women, as are her progressive views on education and women?s suffrage.
Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics
Author: Brian CaraherPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874139723
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Transatlantic poetics" is the principal theme and the constructive burden of these essays. The motive toward its articulation lies in the demand for cross-national, international, and post-nationalist comprehension of cultural relations and critical practices across modern Anglophone British, Irish, and North American literary developments, literary filiations, and literary history. Anglophone literary study needs to articulate ever more clearly the poetics of literary practices, including the cultural politics of literary histories and literary reading. Ireland is a small island, yet its finest writers have insistently articulated its modern culture within a transatlantic neighborhood stretching from continental Europe across the British and Irish archipelago to the western reaches of North America. Modern Dublin is a cultural location for constructing transatlantic literary relations and poetics. This collection foregrounds modern Dublin, its writers, its universities, its literary journals, its teachers, and critics of English Studies, as well as the contested critical construction of regional and international poetics and cultural politics that emerges from the often tense interaction of local and global literary practices and critical desires.