Author: George Augustus SalaPublisher: London : Houlston and Wright
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Lady Chesterfield's Letters to Her Daughter
Author: George Augustus SalaPublisher: London : Houlston and Wright
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Author: Lord ChesterfieldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199554846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master', these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfield's political cynicism and his belief that his country had `always been goverened by the only two or three people, out of two or three millions, totally incapable of governing', as well as his views on good breeding. Not originally intended for publication, this entertaining correspondence illuminates fascinating aspects of eighteenth-century life and manners. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Letters of Diana, Lady Chesterfield, to Her Daugther and Sister
Author: Blanche Alethea Elizabeth Holt CrackanthorpePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Kate HillPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134794665
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century British travelers, this interdisciplinary collection examines to what extent these accounts drew on and developed existing tropes of travel. The three sections take up personal and intimate narratives that were not necessarily designed for public consumption, tales intended for a popular audience, and accounts that were more clearly linked with discourses and institutions of power, such as imperial processes of conquest and governance. Some narratives focus on the things the travelers carried, such as souvenirs from the battlefields of Britain’s imperial wars, while others show the complexity of Victorian dreams of the exotic. Still others offer a disapproving glimpse of Victorian mores through the eyes of indigenous peoples in contrast to the imperialist vision of British explorers. Swiss hotel registers, guest books, and guidebooks offer insights into the history of tourism, while new photographic technologies, the development of the telegraph system, and train travel transformed the visual, audial, and even the conjugal experience of travel. The contributors attend to issues of gender and ethnicity in essays on women travelers, South African travel narratives, and accounts of China during the Opium Wars, and analyze the influence of fictional travel narratives. Taken together, these essays show how these multiple narratives circulated, cross-fertilised, and reacted to one another to produce new narratives, new objects, and new modes of travel.
Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: Saturday Review
Author: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: A List of the Principal Publications Issued from New Burlington Street
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
Author: The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of ChesterfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description