Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Author: John Rylands University Library of ManchesterPublisher:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Publisher
Author: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain
Author: Sarah ZimmermanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192569554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period's most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thelwall, Thomas Campbell, and William Hazlitt. Lecturers aimed to shape auditors' reading habits, burnish their own professional profiles, and establish a literary canon. Auditors wielded their own considerable influence, since their sustained approbation was necessary to a lecturer's success, and independent series could collapse midway if attendance waned. Two chapters are therefore devoted to the auditors, whose creative responses to what they heard often constituted cultural works in their own right. Auditors wrote poems and letters about lecture performances, acted as patrons to lecturers, and hosted dinners and conversation parties that followed these events. Prominent auditors included John Keats, Mary Russell Mitford, Henry Crabb Robinson, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, and Lady Charlotte Bury. The Romantic public literary lecture is a fascinating cultural phenomenon in its own right, but understanding the medium has significant implications for some of the period's most important literary criticism, such as Coleridge's readings of Shakespeare and Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets (1818). The book's two main aims are to chart the emergence of the literary lecture as a popular medium and to develop a critical approach to these events by drawing on an interdisciplinary discussion about how to treat historical speaking performances.
Watts in the Desert
Author: Lex FullartonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838268040
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Solar power has taken a journey from what was once considered the lunatic fringe to mainstream society and industry. Looking specifically at the Solex project in Carnarvon, Western Australia, which pioneered the harvest of solar energy, this book offers an introduction to the development of renewable energy and the rise of dispersed, embedded solar energy systems in Australia in the early 2000s. Fullarton shows how a practical demonstration of innovative existing technology can have an incredible impact on a national scale. The ideas behind the Solex project were adopted by the broader community and were eventually taken up enthusiastically by the general population of Australia. Analyzing government and utility policies throughout the 2000s, the book traces how ambivalence was followed by wholehearted incentives to the roll-out of alternative energy and then by active opposition to alternative energy in favor of traditional fossil fuel as government philosophies changed.
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