Author: Perrin SteinPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998927
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections
Author: Perrin SteinPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998927
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Victorian Eighteenth Century
Author: B. W. YoungPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191531316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Victorians were preoccupied by the eighteenth century. It was central to many nineteenth-century debates, particularly those concerning the place of history and religion in national life. This book explores the diverse responses of key Victorian writers and thinkers, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, Leslie Stephen, Vernon Lee, and M.R. James to a period which commanded their interest throughout the Victorian era, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the opening decades of the twentieth century. They were, on the one hand, appalled by the apparent frivolity of the eighteenth century, which was denounced by Carlyle as a dispiriting successor to the culture of Puritan England, and, on the other they were concerned to continue its secularising influence on English culture, as is seen in the pioneering work of Leslie Stephen, who was passionately keen to transform the legacy of eighteenth-century scepticism into Victorian agnosticism. The Victorian interest in the eighteenth century was never a purely insular matter, and the history of eighteenth-century France, Germany, and Italy played a dominant role in the nineteenth-century historical understanding. A debate between generations was enacted, in which Romanticism melded into Victorianism. The Victorians were haunted by the eighteenth century, both metaphorically and literally, and the book closes with consideration of the culturally resonant eighteenth-century ghosts encountered in the fiction of Vernon Lee and M.R. James.
Bulletin
Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore CityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Francis O'GormanPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351880616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with disdain, this volume re-examines these relationships, exposing some of the significant and complex ways in which key aspects and texts of the eighteenth century were situated, read, and transacted with during the post-Romantic nineteenth century. The contributors challenge long-held assumptions about Victorian uses of the past, and offer new insights into how the literature and culture of the eighteenth century helped shape the culture and identity of the nineteenth. This collection of essays by an impressive array of scholars, with a Preface by David Fairer, offers a sharply new assessment of the energizing place of eighteenth-century literature and culture in the nineteenth century. While obviously of great interest to students of eighteenth-century and Victorian literature, the collection will also appeal to readers broadly concerned questions of literary influence, periodization, and historiography.
Engravings and Their Value
Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' marks
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The Providence Athenæum Quarterly Bulletin
Author: Providence AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Book Auction Records
Author: Frank KarslakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
Author: