Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This portrait of a belle-espirit is one of a series of biographies of literary figures presented by Richard Holmes
Scott on Zélide
Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This portrait of a belle-espirit is one of a series of biographies of literary figures presented by Richard Holmes
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This portrait of a belle-espirit is one of a series of biographies of literary figures presented by Richard Holmes
Scott on Zélide: Portrait of Zélide by Geoffrey Scott
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007372027
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
‘Lives that Never Grow Old’ is a wonderful series– edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007372027
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
‘Lives that Never Grow Old’ is a wonderful series– edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.
The Portrait of Zélide
Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Portrait of Zélide
Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Life of Isabelle de Charriere, writer and friend of Benjamin Constant.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Life of Isabelle de Charriere, writer and friend of Benjamin Constant.
The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture
Author: Katherine Wheeler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351537768
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In the mid-1880s The Builder, an influential British architectural journal, published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corrupt bastardization of the classical architecture of Greece and Rome. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi as the ?Christopher Columbus of modern architecture.? Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture, 1850-1914 examines these conflicting characterizations and reveals how the writing of architectural history was intimately tied to the rise of the professional architect and the formalization of architectural education in late nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a broad range of evidence, including literary texts, professional journals, university curricula, and census records, Victorian Perceptions reframes works by seminal authors such as John Ruskin, Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Geoffrey Scott alongside those by architect-authors such as William J. Anderson and Reginald Blomfield within contemporary architectural debates. Relevant for architectural historians, as well as literary scholars and those in Victorian studies, Victorian Perceptions reassesses the history of Renaissance architecture within the formation of a modern, British architectural profession.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351537768
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In the mid-1880s The Builder, an influential British architectural journal, published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corrupt bastardization of the classical architecture of Greece and Rome. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi as the ?Christopher Columbus of modern architecture.? Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture, 1850-1914 examines these conflicting characterizations and reveals how the writing of architectural history was intimately tied to the rise of the professional architect and the formalization of architectural education in late nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a broad range of evidence, including literary texts, professional journals, university curricula, and census records, Victorian Perceptions reframes works by seminal authors such as John Ruskin, Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Geoffrey Scott alongside those by architect-authors such as William J. Anderson and Reginald Blomfield within contemporary architectural debates. Relevant for architectural historians, as well as literary scholars and those in Victorian studies, Victorian Perceptions reassesses the history of Renaissance architecture within the formation of a modern, British architectural profession.
Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière
Author: Suzanna van Dijk
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042019980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042019980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
The Adelphi ...
Author: John Middleton Murry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description