Author: John MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
A Journal During a Residence in France, from the Beginning of August, to the Middle of December, 1792
Author: John MooreThe French Revolution as Blasphemy
Author: William L. PresslyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520920309
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution. Johan Zoffany's Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792, and Celebrating over the Bodies of the Swiss Soldiers, both painted in about 1794, represent events that helped turn the English against the Revolution. Pressly places both paintings in their historical context—a time of heightened anti-French hysteria—and relates them to pictorial conventions: contemporary history painting, the depiction of urban mobs in satiric and festival imagery, and Hogarth's humorous presentation of modern moral subjects, all of which Zoffany adopted and reinvented for his own purposes. Pressly relates the paintings to Zoffany's status as a German-born Catholic living in Protestant England and to Zoffany's vision of revolutionary justice and the role played by the sansculottes, women, and blacks. He also examines the religious dimension in Zoffany's paintings, showing how they broke new ground by conveying Christian themes in a radically new format. Art historians will find Pressly's book of immense value, as will cultural historians interested in religion, gender, and race.
American Bibliography: 1793-1794
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Travel Writings of John Moore Vol 2
Author: Ben P RobertsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243169
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
John Moore was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these, which brought him international fame. Despite this, his travel writings have not been available since 1820. This collection will be the first in almost two centuries to present his Travel Writings to historians and literary scholars.
K.Q
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Scotland and the French Revolution,
Author: Henry William MeiklePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The History of Voyages and Travels
Author: Robert KerrPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 7342
Book Description
Prepare yourslef for discoveries and new adventures with this incredible book about the true origin of wanderlust. This edition forms a complete history of the earliest start and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the early 19th century. First part of the work covers voyages and travels of discovery in the middle ages; from the era of Alfred, King of England, in the ninth century to that of Don Henry of Portugal at the commencement of the fourteenth century. Second part deals with general voyages and travels chiefly of discovery; from the era of Don Henry, in 1412, to that of George III. in 1760. The rest of the work has some particular voyages and travels arranged in systematic order, Geographical and Chronological, and studies voyages during the era of George III conducted upon scientific principles, by which the Geography of the globe has been nearly perfected.
A Political Biography of Thomas Paine
Author: W A SpeckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317323297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Speck's biography examines Paine's work afresh, in light of new thinking about the role of religion in the formation of his political ideology, and also places Paine within the recently-developed context of 'Atlantic History'.
Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s
Author: Angela KeanePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation. As women were cast into the feminine, maternal role in Romantic national discourse, women like these who defined themselves in other terms found themselves exiled - sometimes literally - from the nation. These wandering women did not rest easily in the family-romance of Romantic nationalism nor could they be reconciled with the models of literary authorship that emerged in the 1790s.
The British Critic
Author: James Shergold BoonePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368511378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1793.