Author: Eyre CrowePublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1178351440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
With Thackeray in America
Author: Eyre CrowePublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1178351440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
With Thackeray in America
Author: Eyre CrowePublisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Thackeray in America
Author: George William CurtisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Thackeray in the United States
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Oxford Book of American Essays
Author: Brander MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Slaves Waiting for Sale
Author: Maurie D. McInnisPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226559335
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia. This innovative book uses Crowe’s paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans, the evolving iconography of abolitionist art, and the role of visual culture in the transatlantic world of abolitionism. Tracing Crowe’s trajectory from Richmond across the American South and back to London—where his paintings were exhibited just a few weeks after the start of the Civil War—Maurie D. McInnis illuminates not only how his abolitionist art was inspired and made, but also how it influenced the international public’s grasp of slavery in America. With almost 140 illustrations, Slaves Waiting for Sale brings a fresh perspective to the American slave trade and abolitionism as we enter the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.
The Book of Snobs
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Esmond
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A Small Boy and Others
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Henry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless career, was prompted initially by the death of his "ideal Elder Brother," the psychologist and philosopher William James. A Small Boy and Others recounts the novelist’s earliest years in Albany and, more importantly, New York City, where he was allowed to wander at will. He evokes the theatrical entertainments he enjoyed, the varied social scene in which the family mixed, and the piecemeal nature of his education. With the first of several extended trips, the "romance" of Europe begins as the small boy becomes acquainted with a British culture already familiar from his precocious reading of the great Victorian novelists. And it is in France, in the Louvre’s Galerie d’Apollon, that he undergoes an initiation into the aesthetic power of great art and an intimation of all the "fun" it might bring him. Yet the child also registered, within this privileged and extended family group, signs of dysfunction and failure. James’s autobiography has significantly determined the nature and even the terms of the extensive biographical and critical interest he continues to enjoy. This first fully annotated critical edition of A Small Boy and Others, which guides the reader through the allusive complexities of James’s prose, also offers fresh insights into the formative years of one of literature’s most influential figures.
Thackeray
Author: D. J. TaylorPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504015207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A rich and evocative portrait of one of the greatest authors of Victorian England Who was William Makepeace Thackeray? Was he the wealthy dilettante who came to London in the 1830s and squandered his fortune on newspapers? Was he the impoverished freelance author of the 1840s who scrapped for every penny he could get? Or was he the great writer who published Vanity Fair in 1847, skewering Victorian society and ensuring his literary legacy? Throughout the many phases of his life, Thackeray remained an enigma. He was friendly but standoffish, generous yet miserly, confident and utterly terrified of failure. A century and a half after Thackeray’s death, D. J. Taylor has produced a biography that tackles the complexities of these contradictions and restores Thackeray to his place in the literary pantheon. His fortune lost by the time he was thirty, his personal life in constant torment, Thackeray’s story is as dramatic as that of any of his characters. In Thackeray, the man can finally be seen in full.