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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Sharpe's London Magazine
Author: Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and instruction. [entitled] Sharpe's London journal. [entitled] Sharpe's London magazine, conducted by mrs. S.C. Hall
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Author: Anna Maria HallThe Battle of the Styles
Author: Bernard PorterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441168729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This title explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain's Imperial heyday. In 1855 it was decided to build a new block of government offices in London, starting with the Foreign and War Offices. The government offices competition came at what was probably - looking back on it - the zenith of Britain's confidence as a nation and international power. One would expect the mid-Victorians to have felt, firstly, pride in their current national situation; and secondly, the urge to commemorate this in the most important national building to be projected in twenty years. Porter uses the debates surrounding the building of these important new monuments to interrogate the very fabric of British society, culture and nation building. The discussion on so many issues - religion, nationality, empire, history, modernism, truth, morality, gender - quite apart from considerations of 'pure' aesthetics, offers an unusual, perhaps even unique, insight into the relationship between these matters and the 'culture' of the time.
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Sharpe's London Magazine: a Journal of Entertainment and Instruction for General Reading...
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Vols. 22-23 include illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Gypsy Identities 1500-2000
Author: David MayallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135357439
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Gypsies have lived in England since the early sixteenth century, yet considerable confusion and disagreement remain over the precise identity of the group. The question 'Who are the Gypsies?' is still asked and the debates about the positioning and permanence of the boundary between Gypsy and non-Gypsy are contested as fiercely today as at any time before. This study locates these debates in their historical perspective, tracing the origins and reproduction of the various ways of defining and representing the Gypsy from the early sixteenth century to the present day. Starting with a consideration of the early modern description of Gypsies as Egyptians, land pirates and vagabonds, the volume goes on to examine the racial classification of the nineteenth century and the emergence of the ethnic Gypsy in the twentieth century. The book closes with an exploration of the long-lasting image of the group as vagrant and parasitic nuisances which spans the whole period from 1500 to 2000.
Life Of Nathaniel Hawthorn
Author: Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Moncure Daniel ConwayPublisher: New York, A. Lovell & Company; London, W. Scott [c1890]
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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